''Aquabacterium fontiphilum'' is a

Gram-negative Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wall ...

non-

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-forming, motile

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of the

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Aquabacterium The species of the genus ''Aquabacterium'' are motile, rod-shaped, Gram-negative, oxidase-positive, catalase-negative bacteria Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biologi ...

'' in the family

Comamonadaceae The Comamonadaceae are a family of the Betaproteobacteria.Willems A., J. De Ley, M. Gillis, and K. Kersters. ''Comamonadaceae, a New Family Encompassing the Acidovorans rRNA Complex, Including Variovorax paradoxus gen. nov.,comb. nov. for Alcali ...

, which was isolated from a water sample from the Nature Valley in

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. ''Aquabacterium fontiphilum'' has a single polar

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and its colonies are semitransparent.

References

External links

Type strain of ''Aquabacterium fontiphilum'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Comamonadaceae Bacteria described in 2009 {{Betaproteobacteria-stub