Cross Index	Flavimonas oryzihabitans
SuperSet	Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Gram-Negative Aerobic/ Microaerophilic Rods and Cocci
Compare	Acetobacter, Acidiphilium, Acidomonas methanolica, Acidothermus cellulolyticus, Acidovorax, Acinetobacter, Afipia, Agrobacterium, Agromonas oligotrophica, Alcaligenes, Alteromonas, Aminobacter, Aquaspirillum, Azomonas, Azorhizobium caulinodans, Azotobacter, Bacteroides, Beijerinckia, Bordetella, Bradyrhizobium japonicum, Brucella, Chromohalobacter marismortui, Chryseomonas luteola, Comamonas, Cupriavidus necator, Deleya, Derxia gummosa, Ensifer adherans, Erythrobacter longus, Flavobacterium, Flavimonas oryzihabitans, Francisella, Frateuria aurantica, Gluconobacter, Halomonas, Hydrogenophaga, Janthinobacterium lividum, Kingella, Lampropedia hyalina, Legionella, Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus, Marinomonas, Mesophilobacter marinus, Methylobacillus glycogenes, Methylobacterium, Methylococcus, Methylomonas, Methylophaga, Methylophilus, Methylovorus glucosotrophus, Moraxella, Morococcus cerebrosus, Neisseriaceae, Neisseria, Oceanospirillum, Ochrobactrum anthropi, Oligella, Paracoccus, Phenylobacterium immobile, Phyllobacterium, Pseudomonas, Psychrobacter immobilis, Rhizobacter daucus, Rhizobium, Rhizomonas suberifaciens, Rochalimaea, Roseobacter, Rugomonas rubra, Serpens, Sinorhizobium, Sphingobacterium, Taylorella equigenitalis, Thermoleophilum, Thermomicrobium, Thermus, Variovorax paradoxus, Volcaniella eurhalina, Weeksella, Wolinella, Xanthobacter, Xanthomonas, Xyella fastidiosa, Xylophilus ampelinus, Zoogloea ramigera
Contrast	Archaea

 

Morphology

Flavimonas oryzihabitans

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram negative
Morphology	straight rods with rounded ends
Motility	nonmotile or motile by means of a single polar flagellum
Specialized structures	no poly-beta-hydroxbutyrate granules, no spores, microcysts, prosthecae or sheaths

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

colonies are 1 mm in diameter, circular, low convex, smooth, shiny with entire edges. Some strains produce wrinkled colonies. Colonies are pale to deep yellow. a Dark brown and diffusible melanin-like pigment is produced by some strains on tyrosine agar

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Flavimonas oryzihabitans

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	chemoorganotroph, sacchrolytic
Oxygen	strict aerobe, respiratory metabolism
pH
Temperature	range 18-37 oC. no growth at 5 oC ar 42 oC
Requirements
Products	uses citrate
Enzymes	catalase positive, oxidase negative, agar is not digested, no opalescence on lecithovitellin agar, no reduction of nitrate or nitrite, Indole negative, H2S negative. growth on cetrimide and MaConkey agar. acid produced in ammonium salt medium under aerobic conditions for D-glucose, L-arabinose, ethanol, D-fructose, mannitol, L-rhamnose. sorbitol, trehalose and D-xylose. No prodcution of acid or gas from D-glucose in peptone water medium
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	general environment
Lifestyle	saprophytes or commensals of humans and other warm blooded animals
Pathogenicity	occasionally pathogenic

Distribution

 

Genome

Flavimonas oryzihabitans

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Flavimonas oryzihabitans

First Citation	Holmes et al 1987 IJSB 37: 245-250
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 82-83

References