| Cross Index | Chloroherpeton thalassium |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria |
| Compare | Purple Bacteria
Green Bacteria
Anaerobic chemotropic Erythrobacter longus, |
| Contrast | Oxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Chloroherpeton thalassium |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-negative. |
| Morphology | Long rods, 8-20 x about 1 um. Cells separate promptly after division, and no septa are seen in each unit (Cells tend to grow in clumps and produce some extracellular slime |
| Motility | Gliding motility, about 10 um min-1 at 20`C. Cells flex through up to 180`. |
| Specialized structures | . Cultures and cell material are green. Photosynthetic pigments are located in the cytoplasmic membrane and chlorosomes which underlie and are attached to the cytoplasmic membrane |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Chloroherpeton thalassium |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | obligately phototrophic |
| Oxygen | Strictly anaerobic |
| pH | Optimum pH: 6.8-7.2. |
| Temperature | Optimum temperature: 25`C; maximum temperature: about 30`C. |
| Requirements | Sulfide and bicarbonate are required for growth. Growth yield slightly increased by acetate, propionate, malate, succinate or glutamate but not by glucose, fructose or casamino acids |
| Products | During sulfide oxidation, elemental sulfur is formed outside the cells and only slowly oxidized further to sulfate. |
| Enzymes | bacteriochlorophyll c and y-carotene are the main photosynthetic pigments |
| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Chloroherpeton thalassium |
| G+C Mol % | 45.0-48.2 (Tm) |
| Reference | Chloroherpeton thalassium |
| First citation | Gibson,J., N.Pfennig and J.
B.Waterbury 1985 In Validation List No. 17. IJSB
35:223-225 Effective publication Gibson,J., N.Pfennig and J.B.Waterbury .1984. Chloroherpton thalassium gen. nov. et spec. nov., a non filamentous, flexing and gliding green sulfur bacterium Arch Microbiol 138: 96-101 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p1694 J. Gibson |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 361 |
| References |