''Kribbia dieselivorans'' is a species of

Gram positive In bacteriology, gram-positive bacteria are bacteria that give a positive result in the Gram stain test, which is traditionally used to quickly classify bacteria into two broad categories according to their type of cell wall. Gram-positive bact ...

, nonmotile, non-sporeforming bacteria. The bacteria are facultatively anaerobic and

mesophilic A mesophile is an organism that grows best in moderate temperature, neither too hot nor too cold, with an optimum growth range from . The optimum growth temperature for these organisms is 37°C. The term is mainly applied to microorganisms. Organi ...

, and the cells can be irregular rods or coccoid. It was originally isolated from tidal flat sediment collected from Kwangyang,

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during a survey for diesel-degrading bacteria. The species name refers to its ability to degrade diesel fuel. ''K. dieselivorans'' is the

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...

of genus ''Kribbia'', and is currently the only species in the genus. The optimum growth temperature for ''K. dieselivorans'' is 30 °C and can grow in the 8-42 °C range. The optimum pH is 6.5-7.5.

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