''Chromohalobacter'' is a gram negative, oxidase and catalase positive, rod shaped, motile marine
Pseudomonadota
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.
It is commonly found in marine environments. Two species of ''Chromohalobacter'' (''
Chromohalobacter marismortui'' and ''
Chromohalobacter salexigens'') was isolated from marine
sponge
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s of the
Saint Martin's Island
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area of the
Bay of Bengal
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Many South Asian and Southe ...
,
Bangladesh
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Colonies are medium-sized, round and yellowish.
It was established by Ventosa and others in 1989, with the reclassification of ''Chromobacterium marismortui'' as ''Chromohalobacter marismortui''.
[
Ventosa, A., Gutierrez, M. C., Garcia, M. T. & Ruiz-Berraquero, F. (1989) ''Classification of ''Chromobacterium marismortui'' in a new genus, ''Chromohalobacter'' gen. nov., as ''Chromohalobacter marismortui'' comb. nov., nom. rev.'' International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, volume 39, pages 382–386.
][ As of 2007, it comprised the following ]species
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:[
Margarita Aguilera, Antonio Cabrera, Claudia Incerti, Susana Fuentes, Nick J. Russell, Alberto Ramos-Cormenzana, and Mercedes Monteoliva-Sánchez (2007), Chromohalobacter salarius ''sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a solar saltern in Cabo de Gata, Almerı´a, southern Spain''. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, volume 57, pages 1238–1242.
]
*'' C. beijerinckii'', formerly ''Pseudomonas beijerinckii'' (T. Hof, 1935; Peçonek and others, 2006[
Janina Peçonek, Claudia Gruber, Virginia Gallego, Antonio Ventosa, Hans-Jürgen Busse, Peter Kämpfer, Christian Radax, and Helga Stan-Lotter (2006), ''Reclassification of ''Pseudomonas beijerinckii'' Hof 1935 as ''Chromohalobacter beijerinckii'' comb. nov., and emended description of the species''. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, volume 56, 1953–1957.
])
*'' C. canadensis'' (Arahal and others, 2001).
*'' C. israelensis'' (Arahal and others, 2001).
*'' C. japonicus'' (Sanches-Porro and others, 2007[Cristina Sanches-Porro, Hiroo Tokunaga, Masao Tokunaga, and Antonio Ventosa (2007): ''Chromohalobacter japonicus sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a Japanese salty food''. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, vol. 57 (10), pp. 2262-2266.])
*'' C. marismortui'' (Ventosa and others, 1989[).
*'' C. salexigens'' (Arahal and others, 2001).
*'' C. saracensis'' (Quillaguamán and others, 2004).
]
References
Oceanospirillales
Bacteria genera
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