Tenacibaculum maritimum (CIP 103530, NCIMB 2158)

Name: Tenacibaculum maritimum (CIP 103530, NCIMB 2158)
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BacDive ID 135277

Type strain

Culture col. no. CIP 103530 NCIMB 2158

NCBI tax ID(s) 107401

Special Collections CIP

History CIP <- 1993, NCIMB <- A.C. Campbell, Paisley College Technology, Paisley, Scotland

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Tenacibaculum maritimum CIP 103530 is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium of the family Flavobacteriaceae.

Gram-negative rod-shaped genome sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 9872

LMG 13038,CIP 103530,NCIMB 2158,IFO15991,NBRC 15991

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:38:31

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Bacteroidota

Class Flavobacteriia

Order Flavobacteriales

Family Flavobacteriaceae

Genus Tenacibaculum

Species Tenacibaculum maritimum

Full scientific name Tenacibaculum maritimum (Wakabayashi et al. 1986) Suzuki et al. 2001

Synonyms (2)

Cytophaga marina
Flexibacter maritimus

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Tenacibaculum maritimum** (2)	Type strain
5651	T. maritimum R-2, R2, DSM 17995, ATCC 43398, IAM 14317, ... (type strain)
135276	T. maritimum B2, CIP 103529, ATCC 43397, NCIMB 2153, JCM ...

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Confidence
34344	negative	rod-shaped
125438			94.012
125438	negative		98

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Composition	Medium link
34344	MEDIUM 35 - for Flexibacter maritimus		Distilled water make up to (300.000 ml);Agar (10.000 g);Yeast extract (0.500 g);Sodium acetate (0.200 g);Tryptone (0.500 g);Beef extract (0.200 g);Synthetic sea solution - M0216 (700.000 ml)
34344	CIP Medium 35			Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
34344	positive	growth	22
34344	positive	growth	10-30
34344	negative	growth	5
34344	negative	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125438		90.4

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
34344	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
34344	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	+	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
34344	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
34344	beta-galactosidase	+	3.2.1.23
34344	caseinase	+	3.4.21.50
34344	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
34344	DNase	+
34344	gelatinase	+
34344	lecithinase	+
34344	oxidase	+
34344	urease	-	3.5.1.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
34344		Hunterston, Scotland	United Kingdom	GBR	Europe
34344	Animal, Sole, black patch necrosis	Hunterston, Scotland	United Kingdom	GBR	Europe	1982

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
34344	1	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	UQ_NCIMB2158 assembly for Tenacibaculum maritimum NCIMB 2158	complete	GCA_045584805		107401	72.12
66792	ASM90270542v1 assembly for Tenacibaculum maritimum NCIMB 2158	contig	GCA_902705425	107401.30	107401	45.19

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: UQ_NCIMB2158 assembly for Tenacibaculum maritimum NCIMB 2158
NCBI: GCA_045584805

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	89.58	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	positive	51.33	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	76.51	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	71.49	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Tenacibaculum maritimum strain NCIMB 2158
PATRIC: 107401.30

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	98.00	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	96.66	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	90.40	no
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	85.07	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	95.15	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	no	94.01	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Genomics and serotyping of Tenacibaculum maritimum outbreak isolates from Australia and New Zealand for guided vaccine development and stewardship	Rudenko O, Angelucci C, Kumanan K, Delisle L, Carson J, Morrison RN, Hutson KS, Barnes AC.	Aquaculture	10.1016/j.aquaculture.2025.742418	2025
	Genomic characterization of Tenacibaculum maritimum O-antigen gene cluster and development of a multiplex PCR-based serotyping scheme.	Lopez P, Bridel S, Saulnier D, David R, Magarinos B, Torres BS, Bernardet JF, Duchaud E.	Transbound Emerg Dis	10.1111/tbed.14637	2022
Genetics	Genetic diversity and population structure of Tenacibaculum maritimum, a serious bacterial pathogen of marine fish: from genome comparisons to high throughput MALDI-TOF typing.	Bridel S, Bourgeon F, Marie A, Saulnier D, Pasek S, Nicolas P, Bernardet JF, Duchaud E.	Vet Res	10.1186/s13567-020-00782-0	2020
	Advancements in Characterizing Tenacibaculum Infections in Canada.	Nowlan JP, Lumsden JS, Russell S.	Pathogens	10.3390/pathogens9121029	2020
Pathogenicity	Recommendation of an appropriate medium for in vitro drug susceptibility testing of the fish pathogen Tenacibaculum maritimum.	Avendano-Herrera R, Irgang R, Nunez S, Romalde JL, Toranzo AE.	Antimicrob Agents Chemother	10.1128/aac.49.1.82-87.2005	2005
Phylogeny	Multilocus sequence analysis of the marine bacterial genus Tenacibaculum suggests parallel evolution of fish pathogenicity and endemic colonization of aquaculture systems.	Habib C, Houel A, Lunazzi A, Bernardet JF, Olsen AB, Nilsen H, Toranzo AE, Castro N, Nicolas P, Duchaud E.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.01177-14	2014
Metabolism	Iron uptake mechanisms in the fish pathogen Tenacibaculum maritimum.	Avendano-Herrera R, Toranzo AE, Romalde JL, Lemos ML, Magarinos B.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.71.11.6947-6953.2005	2005
Enzymology	Simultaneous detection of marine fish pathogens by using multiplex PCR and a DNA microarray.	Gonzalez SF, Krug MJ, Nielsen ME, Santos Y, Call DR.	J Clin Microbiol	10.1128/jcm.42.4.1414-1419.2004	2004

References

#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#34344	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 103530
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Tenacibaculum maritimum (CIP 103530, NCIMB 2158)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_045584805

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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