''Halomonas venusta'' is a

Gram-negative Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wa ...

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, ...

Pseudomonadota, first described as ''Alcaligenes venustus'' (Baumann ''et al''. 1972) and later reclassified as ''Halomonas venusta'', along with other species when the genera ''Deleya'' (Baumann ''et al''. 1983), ''Halomonas'' (Vreeland ''et al''. 1980), and ''Halovibrio'' (Fendrich 1988) and the species ''Paracoccus halodenitrificans'' (Robinson and Gibbons 1952) were unified into a single genus, '' Halomonas'', while the genus '' Zymobacter'' was placed in the family

Halomonadaceae Halomonadaceae is a family of halophilic Pseudomonadota. History The family was originally described in 1988 to contain the genera ''Halomonas'' and ''Deleya''. In 1989, ''Chromobacterium marismortui'' was reclassified as ''Chromohalobacter m ...

. The name stems from the

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

noun ''venusta'' which means "lovely" or "beautiful". It was originally isolated in marine water from

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References

External links

Type strain of ''Halomonas venusta'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Oceanospirillales Bacteria described in 1996 {{Oceanospirillales-stub