| Cross Index | Carnobacterium |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Regular, Nonsporing Gram-Positive Rods |
| Compare | |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset | Brochothrix, Carnobacterium, Caryophanon, Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, Kurthia, Lactobacillus, Listeria, Renibacterium salmoninarum |
| Morphology | Carnobacterium |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-positive |
| Morphology | regular rods shaped cells 0.5-0.7 x 1.0-2.0 um singly, pairs or short chains |
| Motility | may or may not be motile |
| Specialized structures | that do no form spores and are not pigmented |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Carnobacterium |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Chemorganotrophs heterofermentative |
| Oxygen | |
| pH | |
| Temperature | mesophilic, optimum 30 oC, grow at 10 oC but not 45 oC |
| Requirements | grow only in complex media. |
| Products | nitrate are not reduced, lactate is produced from glucose |
| Enzymes | catalase negative |
| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | found in meat products and fish |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity | Carnobacterium piscicola is pathogenic for salmonid fish |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Carnobacterium |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Carnobacterium |
| First citation | Collins et al 1987 IJSB 37: 310-316 |
| The Prokaryotes | P |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 565 |
| References |