Colwellia psychrotropica Bowman et al., 1998
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- phylum
- Pseudomonadota
- class
- Gammaproteobacteria
- order
- Alteromonadales
- family
- Colwelliaceae
- genus
- Colwellia
- species
- Colwellia psychrotropica
Abstract
Colwellia psychrotropica is a psychrophilic Antarctic bacterial species with the ability to synthesize docosahexaenoic acid. It is nonpigmented, curved-rod-like in shape, exhibiting facultative anaerobic growth and possessing an absolute requirement for sea water. Its type strain is ACAM 179T.