''Caenispirillum deserti'' is a

Gram-negative Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wall ...

, '' Vibrio''-shaped, aerobic,

spheroplast A spheroplast (or sphaeroplast in British usage) is a microbial cell from which the cell wall has been almost completely removed, as by the action of penicillin or lysozyme. According to some definitions, the term is used to describe Gram-negative ...

-forming and motile bacterium from the genus of ''

Caenispirillum ''Caenispirillum'' is a bacterial genus from the family of Rhodospirillaceae The Rhodospirillaceae are a family of Pseudomonadota. The majority are purple nonsulfur bacteria, producing energy through photosynthesis; originally all purple n ...

'' which has been isolated from the salt desert in Kutch in

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References

Rhodospirillales Bacteria described in 2015 {{Alphaproteobacteria-stub