Chromatium Perty, 1852
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- phylum
- Pseudomonadota
- class
- Gammaproteobacteria
- order
- Chromatiales
- family
- Chromatiaceae
- genus
- Chromatium
Abstract
Chromatium is a genus of photoautotrophic Gram-negative bacteria which are found in water. The cells are straight rod-shaped or slightly curved. They belong to the purple sulfur bacteria and oxidize sulfide to produce sulfur which is deposited in intracellular granules of the cytoplasm.George M. Garrity: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 2. Auflage. Springer, New York, 2005, Volume 2: The Proteobacteria, Part B: The Gammaproteobacteria
Name
- Homonyms
- Chromatium Perty, 1852