| Morphology | Vibrionacae |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-negative |
| Morphology | straight or curved rods |
| Motility | . Motile by means of polar flagella. Under certain conditions of cultivation (eg. on solid) additional lateral flagella may be synthesized which differ in length from the polar flagellum and may number from a few to 100 flagella/ cell |
| Specialized structures | Do not form endospores or microcysts |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Vibrionacae |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Chemoorganotrophs |
| Oxygen | facultative anaerobes capable of respiratory fermentative metabolism. Oxygen is a universal electron acceptor |
| pH | |
| Temperature | |
| Requirements | All utilize D-glucose sole or principal source of carbon and energy. Most utilize ammonium salts as sole sources of nitrogen. A few have relatively simple organic growth factor requirements. Most species require a 2-3% NaCl seawater base for optimum growth.. |
| Products | Do not denitrify |
| Enzymes | Most are oxidase-positive |
| Unique features | . |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | Primarily aquatic inhabitants found in sea- and freshwater and in association with aquatic organisms |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity | Several species are pathogenic for man, fish, eels, and frogs, as well as other vertebrates and invertebrates |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Vibrionacae |
| G+C Mol % | 38-63 |
| Reference | Vibrionacae |
| First citation | Veron, M.M. (1965) La position taxonomique de Vibrio et des certaines bacteries comparables. C.R. Acad. Sci.Paris 261:5243-5246. |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 516 P. Baumann and R. H. W. Schubert |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 190 |
| References |