''Nevskia ramosa'' is a

mesophilic A mesophile is an organism that grows best in moderate temperature, neither too hot nor too cold, with an optimum growth range from . The optimum growth temperature for these organisms is 37°C. The term is mainly applied to microorganisms. Org ...

proteobacterium Pseudomonadota (synonym Proteobacteria) is a major phylum of Gram-negative bacteria. The renaming of phyla in 2021 remains controversial among microbiologists, many of whom continue to use the earlier names of long standing in the literature. Th ...

from the genus ''

Nevskia ''Nevskia'' is a Gram negative, strictly aerobic and motile genus of bacteria from the family Xanthomonadaceae Xanthomonadaceae is a family of Pseudomonadota Pseudomonadota (synonym Proteobacteria) is a major phylum of Gram-negative bacte ...

''. Famintsyn first described it from a sample of a botanical garden's aquarium water in

St. Petersburg, Russia Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. Typically, its microcolonies resemble characteristic flat rosettes with a bush-like appearance on the surface of water. It has been isolated from a

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lake in

Greifswald, Germany Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostoc ...

References

Bacteria described in 1892 Xanthomonadales {{Gammaproteobacteria-stub