''Chromohalobacter'' is a gram negative, oxidase and catalase positive, rod shaped, motile marine
Pseudomonadota.
It is commonly found in marine environments. Two species of ''Chromohalobacter'' (''
Chromohalobacter marismortui'' and ''
Chromohalobacter salexigens'') was isolated from marine
sponge
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s of the
Saint Martin's Island area of the
Bay of Bengal
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,
Bangladesh
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.
Colonies are medium-sized, round and yellowish.
It was established by Ventosa and others in 1989, with the reclassification of ''Chromobacterium marismortui'' as ''Chromohalobacter marismortui''.
[
Ventosa, A., Gutierrez, M. C., Garcia, M. T. & Ruiz-Berraquero, F. (1989) ''Classification of ''Chromobacterium marismortui'' in a new genus, ''Chromohalobacter'' gen. nov., as ''Chromohalobacter marismortui'' comb. nov., nom. rev.'' International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, volume 39, pages 382–386.
][ As of 2007, it comprised the following ]species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...
:[
Margarita Aguilera, Antonio Cabrera, Claudia Incerti, Susana Fuentes, Nick J. Russell, Alberto Ramos-Cormenzana, and Mercedes Monteoliva-Sánchez (2007), Chromohalobacter salarius ''sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a solar saltern in Cabo de Gata, Almerı´a, southern Spain''. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, volume 57, pages 1238–1242.
]
*'' C. beijerinckii'', formerly ''Pseudomonas beijerinckii'' (T. Hof, 1935; Peçonek and others, 2006[
Janina Peçonek, Claudia Gruber, Virginia Gallego, Antonio Ventosa, Hans-Jürgen Busse, Peter Kämpfer, Christian Radax, and Helga Stan-Lotter (2006), ''Reclassification of ''Pseudomonas beijerinckii'' Hof 1935 as ''Chromohalobacter beijerinckii'' comb. nov., and emended description of the species''. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, volume 56, 1953–1957.
])
*'' C. canadensis'' (Arahal and others, 2001).
*'' C. israelensis'' (Arahal and others, 2001).
*'' C. japonicus'' (Sanches-Porro and others, 2007[Cristina Sanches-Porro, Hiroo Tokunaga, Masao Tokunaga, and Antonio Ventosa (2007): ''Chromohalobacter japonicus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a Japanese salty food''. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, vol. 57 (10), pp. 2262-2266.])
*'' C. marismortui'' (Ventosa and others, 1989[).
*'' C. salexigens'' (Arahal and others, 2001).
*'' C. saracensis'' (Quillaguamán and others, 2004).
]
References
Oceanospirillales
Bacteria genera
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