Chromohalobacter
Chromohalobacter is a gram negative, oxidase and catalase positive, rod shaped, motile marine Pseudomonadota. It is commonly found in marine environments. Two species of Chromohalobacter was isolated from marine sponges of the St. [Martin's Island|Saint Martin's Island] area of the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. 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. As of 2007, it comprised the following species:
- C. beijerinckii, formerly Pseudomonas beijerinckii
- C. canadensis.
- C. israelensis.
- C. japonicus
- C. marismortui.
- C. nigrandesensis.
- C. salarius.
- C. salexigens .
- C. saracensis.