Name: Polymorphobacter glacialis Xing et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: gla.ci.a’lis. L. masc./fem. adj. glacialis, icy, frozen, full of ice, referring to the frozen, icy environment from which the species was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: B555-2; CGMCC 1.15519; KCTC 52396

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: KP013180 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Xing T, Liu Y, Wang N, Xu B, Shen L, Liu K, Gu Z, Guo B, Zhou Y, Liu H. Polymorphobacter glacialis sp. nov., isolated from ice core. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:617-620.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1621-1622.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• Notes:
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.

Parent taxon: Polymorphobacter Fukuda et al. 2014

Assigned by: Xing T, Liu Y, Wang N, Xu B, Shen L, Liu K, Gu Z, Guo B, Zhou Y, Liu H. Polymorphobacter glacialis sp. nov., isolated from ice core. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:617-620.

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Record number: 795163