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Appeared in: Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria

Editor list: Whitman, WB

Publication year: 2015

eISBN: 978-1-118-96060-8

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00357

Abstract: 

Ha.lis.co.me.no.bac'ter. Gr. v. haliskomai to fall into the hands of the enemy, to be imprisoned; N.L. masc. n. bacter a rod or staff; N.L. masc. n. Haliscomenobacter imprisoned rod.

Bacteroidetes / Sphingobacteriia / Sphingobacteriales / Saprospiraceae / Haliscomenobacter

Thin rods, 0.4–0.5 × 3–5 µm, usually in chains, enclosed by a narrow, hardly visible hyaline sheath. No ferric or manganic oxides have been detected so far as depositions in or on the sheaths. Sometimes branching of the filaments incidentally occurs in stationary cultures. The branching cells disrupt the sheath and form a new sheath outside the envelope. Compared with the main filaments, the lateral branches are short. Cells outside the sheaths are rarely visible; no flagellation or motility has been observed. Gram-stain-negative. Aerobic, having a strictly respiratory type of metabolism with oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor. Temperature range: 8–30°C; optimum: 25–28°C. Growth is much faster at pH 7.5 than at pH 6.4.

DNA G+C content (mol%): 49.

Type species: Haliscomenobacter hydrossis van Veen, van der Kooy, Geuze and van der Vlies 1973, 213^AL.

Harvard Citation style: Kämpfer, P. (2015) Haliscomenobacter, in Whitman, W. (ed.) Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00357

APA Citation style: Kämpfer, P. (2015). Haliscomenobacter. In Whitman, W. (Ed.), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00357