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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.gbm00955

Abstract: 

Lep' to.thrix. Gr. adj. leptus fine, small; Gr. n. thrix hair; M.L. fem. n. Leptothrix fine hair.

Proteobacteria / Betaproteobacteria / Burkholderiales / Comamonadaceae / incertae Sedis III. Leptothrix

Straight rods, 0.6–1.5 × 2.5–15 µm, occurring in chains within a sheath or free swimming as single cells, pairs, or short chains. Most strains are motile by one polar flagellum. One species is characterized by holdfasts¹ and a subpolar tuft of flagella. Poly-β-hydroxybutyrate is stored in globules as reserve material. Gram negative. Sheaths can become encrusted by the deposition of iron and manganese oxides.

Type species: Leptothrix ochracea (Roth 1797) Kützing 1843, 198 (Conferva ochracea Roth 1797.)

Harvard Citation style: Spring, S. and Kämpfer, P. (2015) Incertae Sedis III. Leptothrix, in Whitman, W. (ed.) Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00955

APA Citation style: Spring, S., & Kämpfer, P. (2015). Incertae Sedis III. Leptothrix. In Whitman, W. (Ed.), Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00955