''Psychrobacter urativorans'' is a
Gram-negative,
,
nonmotile
of the genus ''
Psychrobacter
''Psychrobacter'' is a genus of Gram-negative, osmotolerant, oxidase-positive, psychrophilic or psychrotolerant, aerobic bacteria which belong to the family Moraxellaceae and the class Gammaproteobacteria. The shape is typically cocci or cocco ...
'', which was first isolated from frozen package of pork sausage in the 1970s.
The species' first recognized publication isolated it from ornithogenic soil (fecal matter of birds) in the Arctic in the 1990s.
The name "urativorans" ("uric acid eating") is derived from the
Neo-Latin
New Latin (also called Neo-Latin or Modern Latin) is the revival of Literary Latin used in original, scholarly, and scientific works since about 1500. Modern scholarly and technical nomenclature, such as in zoological and botanical taxonomy ...
"uratum" (salt of
uric acid), and
Latin "vorans" (eating or devouring).
The species is known to live in Arctic ornithogenic soil, and chilled meat.
References
External links
Type strain of ''Psychrobacter urativorans'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Moraxellaceae
Bacteria described in 1996
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