Aquaspirillum bengal is a Gram negative bacterium in the genus Aquaspirillum.
| Aquaspirillum bengal | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Betaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Neisseriales |
| Family: | Neisseriaceae |
| Genus: | Aquaspirillum |
| Species: | A. bengal
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| Binomial name | |
| Aquaspirillum bengal Kumar et al. 1974[1]
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Description
editThe species is helical in shape and moves in water through flagella.[2] The cell is 0.9 to 1.2 μm in diameter and 5.2 to 22.0 μm in length.[3]
References
edit- ^ Parte, A.C. "Aquaspirillum". LPSN.
- ^ Yoon, J. H., Kang, S. J., Park, S., Lee, S. Y. & Oh, T. K. (2007b). Reclassification of Aquaspirillum itersonii and Aquaspirillum peregrinum as Novispirillum itersonii gen. nov., comb. nov. and Insolitispirillum peregrinum gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 57, 2830–2835.
- ^ Ranajit Kumar, A. K. Banerjee, J. H. Bowdre, L. J. McElroy, and N. R. Krieg Isolation, Characterization, and Taxonomy of Aquaspirillum bengal sp.nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1974 24: 453-458.
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