Cryobacterium are a genus of aerobic, cold preferring, rod shaped bacteria. Their most known habitats are soil and glacier ice in the Antarctic and Arctic regions.
Cryobacterium arcticum is psychrotolerant, able to grow between -6 and 28 C, and were isolated from Store KoldeweyStore Koldewey, north-east Greenland soil.
Cryobacterium aureum is psychrophilic, grow at 0-18 C and were isolated from glacier ice in ChinaChina.
