Neptunomonas concharum

Neptunomonas concharum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Oceanospirillales
Family:	Oceanospirillaceae
Genus:	Neptunomonas
Species:	N. concharum
Binomial name
Neptunomonas concharum Lee et al. 2012

Neptunomonas concharum is a species of bacteria. ^[1] It is Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, motile and rod-shaped, its type strain being LHW37T (=KACC 15543T =JCM 17730T). This species was first isolated from a dead ark clam, hence the specific epithet "concharum", meaning "of the shells".

References

1. Lee, H.-W.; Shin, N.-R.; Lee, J.; Roh, S. W.; Whon, T. W.; Bae, J.-W. (2011). "Neptunomonas concharum sp. nov., isolated from a dead ark clam, and emended description of the genus Neptunomonas". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 62 (Pt 11): 2657–2661. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.037473-0 . ISSN   1466-5026. PMID   22199221.

Further reading

• Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey's manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 5. Springer, 2012.
• Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 6: Proteobacteria: Gamma Subclass. Vol. 6. Springer, 2006.
• Hedlund, B. P.; Costa, K. C. (2010). "Neptunomonas". Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology. pp. 1773–1779. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-77587-4_127. ISBN   978-3-540-77584-3.
• Acton, Q. Ashton. Issues in Biological and Life Sciences Research: 2012 Edition. ScholarlyEditions, 2013.

External links

• LPSN
• Type strain of Neptunomonas concharum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase