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Comamonas aquatica (CIP 54.99)

Name: Comamonas aquatica (CIP 54.99)
Creator: BacDive
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BacDive ID 138445

Type strain

Culture col. no. CIP 54.99

NCBI tax ID(s) 225991

Special Collections CIP

History CIP <- 1954, Vinzent, Le Havre, France, Vibrio sp. CIP <- 1954, R. Vinzent, Le Havre, France, Vibrio sp.

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Comamonas aquatica CIP 54.99 is an obligate aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium of the family Comamonadaceae.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped obligate aerobe Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 70626

CIP 54.99

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:39:16

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Betaproteobacteria

Order Burkholderiales

Family Comamonadaceae

Genus Comamonas

Species Comamonas aquatica

Full scientific name Comamonas aquatica (Hylemon et al. 1973) Wauters et al. 2003

Synonyms (1)

Aquaspirillum aquaticum

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Comamonas aquatica** (6)	Type strain
2928	C. aquatica DSM 9155, ATCC 11330, CCUG 17395, LMG 2370, ... (type strain)
141365	C. aquatica CCUG 1192, LMG 5937
141528	C. aquatica CCUG 2632, LMG 6162
141917	C. aquatica CCUG 8404, LMG 6163
142877	C. aquatica CCUG 15504, LMG 6112
142973	C. aquatica CCUG 15988 B, LMG 8917

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell shape	Motility
39749	negative	rod-shaped

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Composition	Medium link
39749	MEDIUM 3 - Columbia agar	Columbia agar (39.000 g);distilled water (1000.000 ml)
39749	CIP Medium 3		Medium recipe at CIP
39749	CIP Medium 72		Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
39749	positive	growth	30

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

39749

Oxygen toleranceobligate aerobe

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
39749	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
39749	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
39749	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
68382	acid phosphatase	-	3.1.3.2	from API zym
68382	alkaline phosphatase	-	3.1.3.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-chymotrypsin	-	3.4.21.1	from API zym
68382	alpha-fucosidase	-	3.2.1.51	from API zym
68382	alpha-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.22	from API zym
68382	alpha-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.20	from API zym
68382	alpha-mannosidase	-	3.2.1.24	from API zym
68382	beta-galactosidase	-	3.2.1.23	from API zym
68382	beta-glucosidase	-	3.2.1.21	from API zym
68382	beta-glucuronidase	-	3.2.1.31	from API zym
39749	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
68382	cystine arylamidase	-	3.4.11.3	from API zym
68382	esterase (C 4)	+		from API zym
68382	esterase lipase (C 8)	+		from API zym
68382	leucine arylamidase	+	3.4.11.1	from API zym
68382	lipase (C 14)	-		from API zym
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	+		from API zym
39749	oxidase	+
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
39749	urease	-	3.5.1.5
68382	valine arylamidase	-		from API zym

API zym

@ref	Control	Alkaline phosphatase	Esterase (C 4)	2-naphtyl caprylateEsterase Lipase (C 8)	Lipase (C 14)	L-leucyl-2-naphthylamideLeucine arylamidase	L-valyl-2-naphthylamideValine arylamidase	L-cystyl-2-naphthylamideCystine arylamidase	Trypsin	alpha- Chymotrypsin	Acid phosphatase	Naphthol-AS-BI-phosphateNaphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	alpha- Galactosidase	beta- Galactosidase	beta- Glucuronidase	alpha- Glucosidase	beta- Glucosidase	N-acetyl-beta- glucosaminidase	alpha- Mannosidase	alpha- Fucosidase
39749	-	-	+	+	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Host species	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Isolation date
39749			Le Havre	France	FRA	Europe
39749	Human, Pus	Homo sapiens	Le Havre	France	FRA	Europe	1954

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
39749	2	Risk group (French classification)

Sequence information

Genome-based predictions

Literature

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 )
#39749	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 54.99
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#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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