''Chromohalobacter salexigens'' is a gram negative, oxidase and catalase positive, rod shaped, motile and moderately
halophilic
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species of marine bacteria.
It was isolated from
Bonaire
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, Netherlands Antilles and from marine
sponge
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s of the
Saint Martin's Island
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area of the
Bay of Bengal
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,
Bangladesh
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.
Colonies are medium-sized, round and yellowish in color.
The type strain is DSM 3043
T (= ATCC BAA-138
T = CECT 5384
T = CCM4921
T = CIP106854
T = NCIMB 13768
T). Its genome has been sequenced.
It is a gamma-Proteobacterium, and as such, closely related to ''Pseudomonas'' and ''Escherichia coli'' .
References
Further reading
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External links
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LPSNType strain of ''Chromohalobacter salexigens'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Oceanospirillales
Bacteria described in 2001
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