''Neptunomonas concharum'' is a
species of
bacteria.
It is
Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic,
motile and rod-shaped, its type strain being LHW37T (=KACC 15543T =JCM 17730T). This species was first isolated from a dead
ark clam
Ark clam is the common name for a family of small to large-sized saltwater clams or marine bivalve molluscs in the family Arcidae. Ark clams vary both in shape and size. They number about 200 species worldwide.
The shells of ark clams are of ...
, hence the
specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
"concharum", meaning "of the shells".
References
Further reading
*Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey's manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 5. Springer, 2012.
*Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 6: Proteobacteria: Gamma Subclass. Vol. 6. Springer, 2006.
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*Acton, Q. Ashton. Issues in Biological and Life Sciences Research: 2012 Edition. ScholarlyEditions, 2013.
External links
LPSNType strain of ''Neptunomonas concharum'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Oceanospirillales
Bacteria described in 2012
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