Glaciimonas immobilis
Glaciimonas immobilis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Proteobacteria |
Class: | Betaproteobacteria |
Order: | Burkholderiales |
Family: | Oxalobacteraceae |
Genus: | Glaciimonas |
Species: | G. immobilis |
Binomial name | |
Glaciimonas immobilis Zhang et al. 2011[1] | |
Type strain | |
Cr9-30, DSM 23240, LMG 25547, Margesin Cr9-30[2] |
Glaciimonas immobilis is a psychrophilic, nonmotile, rod-shaped, Gram-negative bacterium of the genus Glaciimonas which was isolated from alpine glacier cryoconite.[3] Phylogenetic analysis has shown it to belong to the family Oxalobacteraceae.
Etymology
Glaciimonas immobilis is composite from the Latin glacies where it was found and immobilis which means motionless.[4]