Marichromatium Explained

Marichromatium is a genus in the phylum Pseudomonadota (Bacteria). The name Marichromatium derives from: Latin mare, the sea; Neo-Latin 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)^[1]
• 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)^[2]
• M. gracile (Strzeszewski 1913) Imhoff et al. 1998, (type species of the genus), Latin gracile, thin, slender)^[3]
• M. indicum (Arunasri et al. 2005, Latin indicum, Indian, pertaining to India, the country in which the type strain was isolated)^[4]
• M. purpuratum (Imhoff and Trüper 1980, Imhoff et al. 1998, Latin purpuratum, clad or dressed in purple)

See also

• • Bacterial taxonomy Microbiology

Notes and References

1. Kumar. P. Anil. Jyothsna. T. S. Sasi. Srinivas. T. N. R.. Sasikala. Ch.. Ramana. Ch. V.. Imhoff. J. F.. 2007. Marichromatium bheemlicum sp. nov., a non-diazotrophic, photosynthetic gammaproteobacterium from a marine aquaculture pond. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 57. 6. 1261–1265. 10.1099/ijs.0.64753-0. free.
2. Sucharita. K.. Shiva Kumar. E.. Sasikala. Ch.. Panda. B. B.. Takaichi. S.. Ramana. Ch. V.. 2010. Marichromatium fluminis sp. nov., a slightly alkaliphilic, phototrophic gammaproteobacterium isolated from river sediment. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 60. 5. 1103–1107. 10.1099/ijs.0.013284-0. free.
3. Phylogenetic relationships among the Chromatiaceae, their taxonomic reclassification and description of the new genera Allochromatium, Halochromatium, Isochromatium, Marichromatium, Thiococcus, Thiohalocapsa and Thermochromatium. Johannes F.. Imhoff. Jörg. Süling. Ralf. Petri. 1 October 1998. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 48. 4. 1129–1143. ijs.sgmjournals.org. 10.1099/00207713-48-4-1129. 9828415. free.
4. Marichromatium indicum sp. nov., a novel purple sulfur gammaproteobacterium from mangrove soil of Goa, India. K.. Arunasri. C.. Sasikala. C. V.. Ramana. J.. Süling. J. F.. Imhoff. 1 March 2005. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 55. 2. 673–679. ijs.sgmjournals.org. 10.1099/ijs.0.02892-0. free.