Parvularcula bermudensis is a marine bacterium which was identified in 2003 in the western Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean. It forms a deep branch in the Alphaproteobacteria, distinct from the other orders.
| Parvularcula bermudensis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Parvularculales |
| Family: | Parvularculaceae |
| Genus: | Parvularcula |
| Species: | P. bermudensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Parvularcula bermudensis Cho and Giovannoni 2003[1]
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Parvularcula bermudensis isolates are Gram-negative, strictly aerobic, chemoheterotrophic, slightly motile short rods with a single flagellum. Colonies on marine agar are very small (0·3–0·8 mm in diameter), yellowish-brown and very hard. They are oxidase positive and catalase negative.[2]
References
edit- ^ ."Parvularcula". LPSN. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
- ^ Cho, J.-C (2003). "Parvularcula bermudensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium that forms a deep branch in the α-Proteobacteria". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 53 (4): 1031–1036. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02566-0. PMID 12892122.
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