| Chromohalobacter | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Oceanospirillales |
| Family: | Halomonadaceae |
| Genus: | Chromohalobacter Ventosa et al. 1989 |
| Species | |
See text. | |
Chromohalobacter is a gram negative, oxidase and catalase positive, rod shaped, motile marine Pseudomonadota. [1] It is commonly found in marine environments. Two species of Chromohalobacter ( Chromohalobacter marismortui and Chromohalobacter salexigens ) was isolated from marine sponges of the Saint Martin's Island area of the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. [1] Colonies are medium-sized, round and yellowish. [1] It was established by Ventosa and others in 1989, with the reclassification of Chromobacterium marismortui as Chromohalobacter marismortui. [2] [3] As of 2007, it comprised the following species: [3]
- C. beijerinckii , formerly Pseudomonas beijerinckii (T. Hof, 1935; [4] Peçonek and others, 2006 [5] )
- C. canadensis (Arahal and others, 2001).
- C. israelensis (Arahal and others, 2001).
- C. japonicus (Sanches-Porro and others, 2007 [6] )
- C. marismortui (Ventosa and others, 1989 [2] ).
- C. nigrandesensis (Prado and others, 2006).
- C. salarius (Agulilera and others, 2007 [3] ).
- C. salexigens (Arahal and others, 2001).
- C. saracensis (Quillaguamán and others, 2004).