hymenobacter glacieicola hymenobacter glacieicola hymenobacter glacieicola is a gram-negative, rod-shaped and non-motile bacterium from the genus of hymenobacter which has been isolated from glacier ice from the muztagh glacier from the tibetan plateau in china. hymenobacter glacieicola scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: bacteroidota class: cytophagia order: cytophagales family: hymenobacteraceae genus: hymenobacter species: h. glacieicola binomial name hymenobacter glacieicolaliu et al. 2016 type strain cgmcc 1.12990, b1909, jcm 30596