''Pontibacter virosus'' is a

Gram-negative Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that, unlike gram-positive bacteria, do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. Their defining characteristic is that their cell envelope consists ...

rod-shaped Bacterial cellular morphologies are the shapes that are characteristic of various types of bacteria and often key to their identification. Their direct examination under a light microscope enables the classification of these bacteria (and archae ...

and motile bacterium from the genus ''

Pontibacter ''Pontibacter'' is a strictly aerobic bacteria Bacteria (; : bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one Cell (biology), biological cell. They constitute a large domain (biology), domain of Prokaryote ...

'' which has been isolated from soil which was contaminated with

hexachlorocyclohexane Hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), , is any of several polyhalogenated organic compounds consisting of a six-carbon ring with one chlorine and one hydrogen attached to each carbon. This structure has nine stereoisomers (eight diastereomers, one of whi ...

from Ummari in

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References

External links

Type strain of ''Pontibacter virosus'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Cytophagia Bacteria described in 2016 {{Bacteroidota-stub