Chromohalobacter salexigens Arahal et al., 2001
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- phylum
- Pseudomonadota
- class
- Gammaproteobacteria
- order
- Oceanospirillales
- family
- Halomonadaceae
- genus
- Chromohalobacter
- species
- Chromohalobacter salexigens
Abstract
Chromohalobacter salexigens is a gram negative, oxidase and catalase positive, rod shaped, motile and moderately halophilic species of marine bacteria. It was isolated from Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles and from marine sponges of the Saint Martin's Island area of the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh."Chromohalobacter Salexigens." Microbe Wiki. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 May 2017. Colonies are medium-sized, round and yellowish in color. The type strain is DSM 3043T (= ATCC BAA-138T = CECT 5384T = CCM4921T = CIP106854T = NCIMB 13768T). Its genome has been sequenced. It is a gamma-Proteobacterium, and as such, closely related to Pseudomonas and Escherichia coli .