Tenacibaculum skagerrakense

Tenacibaculum skagerrakense
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacteroidetes
Class: Flavobacteria
Order: Flavobacteriales
Family: Flavobacteriaceae
Genus: Tenacibaculum
Species: T. skagerrakense
Binomial name
Tenacibaculum skagerrakense
Frette et al., 2004

Tenacibaculum skagerrakense is a bacterium.[1] It is named after Skagerrak, Denmark, where it was first isolated. Its type strain is D30T (=ATCC BAA-458T =DSM 14836T).

Description

It is Gram-negative, oxidase- and catalase-positive. Cells are rods (0.5–15 micrometres in length) during exponential growth; spherical cells occur in stationary phase. Colonies are bright yellow and flexirubin-type pigment is absent.

References

  1. Frette, L. (2004). "Tenacibaculum skagerrakense sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from the pelagic zone in Skagerrak, Denmark". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54 (2): 519–524. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02398-0. ISSN 1466-5026.

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