Pontibacillus litoralis

Pontibacillus litoralis is a Gram-positive, moderately halophilic, facultatively anaerobic, endospore-forming and motile bacterium from the genus of Pontibacillus which has been isolated from the surface of the sea anemone Anthopleura xanthogrammica from the Naozhou Island in China.[1][3][4][5][6]

Pontibacillus litoralis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Division:	Firmicutes
Class:	Bacilli
Order:	Bacillales
Family:	Bacillaceae
Genus:	Pontibacillus
Species:	P. litoralis
Binomial name
Pontibacillus litoralis Chen et al. 2010[1]
Type strain
DSM 21186, JSM 072002, KCTC 13237[2]

References

1. Parte, A.C. "Pontibacillus". LPSN.
2. "Pontibacillus litoralis Taxon Passport - StrainInfo". www.straininfo.net.
3. "Pontibacillus litoralis". www.uniprot.org.
4. Parker, Charles Thomas; Taylor, Dorothea; Garrity, George M (2010). Parker, Charles Thomas; Garrity, George M (eds.). "Nomenclature Abstract for Pontibacillus litoralis Chen et al. 2010". The NamesforLife Abstracts. doi:10.1601/nm.17805.
5. "Details: DSM-21186". www.dsmz.de.
6. Chen, YG; Zhang, YQ; Yi, LB; Li, ZY; Wang, YX; Xiao, HD; Chen, QH; Cui, XL; Li, WJ (March 2010). "Pontibacillus litoralis sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic bacterium isolated from a sea anemone, and emended description of the genus Pontibacillus". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 60 (Pt 3): 560–5. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.009910-0. PMID 19654352.