''Vibrio pectenicida'' is a pathogenic bacterium which attacks

larvae A larva (; plural larvae ) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults. Animals with indirect development such as insects, amphibians, or cnidarians typically have a larval phase of their life cycle. The ...

of the scallop ''

Pecten maximus ''Pecten maximus'', common names the great scallop, king scallop, St James shell or escallop, is a northeast Atlantic species of scallop, an edible saltwater clam, a marine bivalve mollusc in the family Pectinidae. This is the type species of th ...

''. This bacterium does not use glucose or fructose as its carbon sources, but instead uses

rhamnose Rhamnose (Rha, Rham) is a naturally occurring deoxy sugar. It can be classified as either a methyl-pentose or a 6-deoxy-hexose. Rhamnose predominantly occurs in nature in its L-form as L-rhamnose (6-deoxy-L-mannose). This is unusual, since most o ...

and

betaine A betaine () in chemistry is any neutral chemical compound with a positively charged cationic functional group, such as a quaternary ammonium or phosphonium cation (generally: onium ions) that bears no hydrogen atom and with a negatively charged ...

. A365 is the type strain (= CIP 105190^T).

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LPSNType strain of ''Vibrio pectenicida'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Vibrionales Bacteria described in 1998 {{gammaproteobacteria-stub

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