Oceanospirillaceae is a family of

Pseudomonadota Pseudomonadota (synonym Proteobacteria) is a major phylum of Gram-negative bacteria. The renaming of phyla in 2021 remains controversial among microbiologists, many of whom continue to use the earlier names of long standing in the literature. The ...

. Most genera in this family live in environments with high concentrations of salt; they are

halotolerant Halotolerance is the adaptation of living organisms to conditions of high salinity. Halotolerant species tend to live in areas such as hypersaline lakes, coastal dunes, saline deserts, salt marshes, and inland salt seas and springs. Halophiles are ...

halophilic The halophiles, named after the Greek word for "salt-loving", are extremophiles that thrive in high salt concentrations. While most halophiles are classified into the domain Archaea, there are also bacterial halophiles and some eukaryotic species, ...

.George M. Garrity: Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. 2. Auflage. Springer, New York, 2005, Volume 2: The Proteobacteria, Part B: The Gammaproteobacteria They are marine, except '' Balneatrix'' which is found in fresh water.All members are strictly aerobic, except '' Neptunomonas'' which can perform fermentation reactions.

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Family Oceanospirillaceae
- J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature Oceanospirillales {{Oceanospirillales-stub