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''Marichromatium'' is a genus in the phylum
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). The name ''Marichromatium'' derives from:
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''Chromatium'', a genus name; to give ''Marichromatium'', the ''Chromatium'' of the sea, the truly marine ''Chromatium''.


Species

The genus contains five species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely: * '' M. bheemlicum'' (Anil Kumar ''et al''. 2007, New Latin ''bheemlicum'', pertaining to Bheemli, the place from which the type strain was isolated) * '' M. fluminis'' (Sucharita ''et al''. 2010, Latin n ''fluminis'', of a river, referring to the isolation of the type strain from sediment of the Baitarani River, located in Kalibanj Forest, Orissa, India) * '' M. gracile'' (Strzeszewski 1913) Imhoff ''et al''. 1998, (type species of the genus), Latin ''gracile'', thin, slender) * '' M. indicum'' (Arunasri ''et al''. 2005, Latin ''indicum'', Indian, pertaining to India, the country in which the type strain was isolated) * '' M. purpuratum'' (Imhoff and Trüper 1980, Imhoff ''et al''. 1998, Latin ''purpuratum'', clad or dressed in purple)


See also

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Microbiology Microbiology () is the branches of science, scientific study of microorganisms, those being of unicellular organism, unicellular (single-celled), multicellular organism, multicellular (consisting of complex cells), or non-cellular life, acellula ...


References

Chromatiales Bacteria genera {{Chromatiales-stub