Chromobacterium
Genus of bacteria
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Chromobacterium is a genus of Gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria.[3]: 279 Currently, eleven species within the genus are known, two of those are Chromobacterium violaceum and Chromobacterium subtsugae;[4] the latter was discovered by scientists at the Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, Maryland.[4]
| Chromobacterium | |
|---|---|
| |
| Blood agar plate culture of Chromobacterium violaceum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Betaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Neisseriales |
| Family: | Neisseriaceae |
| Genus: | Chromobacterium Bergonzini 1880[1] |
| Type species | |
| Chromobacterium violaceum[1] | |
| Species | |
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C. alkanivorans[1] | |
