Chromobacterium

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Chromobacterium
Blood agar plate culture of Chromobacterium violaceum.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Betaproteobacteria
Order: Neisseriales
Family: Neisseriaceae
Genus: Chromobacterium
Bergonzini 1880[1]
Type species
Chromobacterium violaceum[1]
Species

C. alkanivorans[1]
C. amazonense[1]
C. aquaticum[1]
C. haemolyticum[1]
C. phragmitis[2]
C. piscinae[1]
C. pseudoviolaceum[1]
C. rhizoryzae[1]
C. subtsugae[1]
C. vaccinii[1]
C. violaceum[1]

Chromobacterium is a genus of

Gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria.[3]: 279  Currently, eleven species within the genus are known, two of those are Chromobacterium violaceum and Chromobacterium subtsugae;[4] the latter was discovered by scientists at the Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland.[4]

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