''Enterovibrio calviensis'' is a
halophilic
A halophile (from the Greek word for 'salt-loving') is an extremophile that thrives in high salt concentrations. In chemical terms, halophile refers to a Lewis acidic species that has some ability to extract halides from other chemical species.
...
and
facultatively oligotrophic bacterium species from the genus of ''
Enterovibrio
''Enterovibrio'' is a genus of bacteria from the family of Vibrionaceae
The Vibrionaceae are a family of Pseudomonadota given their own order, Vibrionales. Inhabitants of fresh or salt water, several species are pathogenic, including the type ...
'' which has been isolated from sea water from the
Bay of Calvi from the
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea ( ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the east by the Levant in West Asia, on the north by Anatolia in West Asia and Southern Eur ...
in
France
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.
References
Vibrionales
Bacteria described in 2002
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