''Xenophilus arseniciresistens'' 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 ...

aerobic Aerobic means "requiring air," in which "air" usually means oxygen. Aerobic may also refer to * Aerobic exercise, prolonged exercise of moderate intensity * Aerobics, a form of aerobic exercise * Aerobic respiration, the aerobic process of cellu ...

arsenite In chemistry, an arsenite is a chemical compound containing an arsenic oxyanion where arsenic has oxidation state +3. Note that in fields that commonly deal with groundwater chemistry, arsenite is used generically to identify soluble AsIII anions ...

-resistant and motile

bacterium Bacteria (; : bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were among the ...

from the genus ''

Xenophilus Xenophilus or Xenophilos may refer to: *Xenophilus (5th century BC), playwright who won the Lenaia with a comedy * Xenophilus (philosopher) (4th century BC), Pythagorean philosopher and music theorist * Xenophilus (phrourarch) (4th century BC), Ma ...

'' which has been isolated from soil.

References

Comamonadaceae Bacteria described in 2014 {{betaproteobacteria-stub