Name: Mycobacterium hippocampi BFLP-6
Creator: BacDive
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Strain identifier

BacDive ID: 23132

Type strain:

Species: Mycobacterium hippocampi

Strain Designation: BFLP-6

Culture col. no.: DSM 45391, LMG 25372, JCM 30996

Strain history: LMG 25372 <-- J. L. Balcázar; Sci. & Technol. Park of Univ. of Girona, Spain; BFLP-6.

NCBI tax ID(s): 659824 (species)

SI-ID 363694

LMG 25372, DSM 45391, JCM 30996

Section

Mycobacterium hippocampi BFLP-6 is a mesophilic animal pathogen that was isolated from captive seahorse with tail rot from a aquarium.

animal pathogen
mesophilic
16S sequence
Bacteria
genome sequence

Information on the name and the taxonomic classification. Name and taxonomic classification

	Last LPSN update	14-12-2023 (DD-MM-YYYY)
	Domain	"Bacteria"
	Phylum	*Actinomycetota*
	Class	*Actinomycetes*
	Order	*Mycobacteriales*
	Family	*Mycobacteriaceae*
	Genus	*Mycobacterium*
	Species	**Mycobacterium hippocampi**
	Full Scientific Name (LPSN)	Mycobacterium hippocampi Balcázar et al. 2014

Synonym

Mycolicibacterium hippocampi

Information on morphological and physiological properties Morphology

[Ref.: #69480]	Gram stain	positive Confidence in %100

[Ref.: #69480]	Motility	no Confidence in %91.295

Information on culture and growth conditions Culture and growth conditions

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Culture medium

MIDDLEBROOK MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 645)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

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Culture medium

BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514)

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Culture medium growth

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Culture medium link

Medium recipe at MediaDive

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Culture medium composition

expand / minimize

	Temperatures	Kind of temperature		Temperature
[Ref.: #18868]			growth	28 °C
[Ref.: #67770]			growth	25 °C

[Ref.: #18868]	Temperature range	mesophilic
[Ref.: #67770]	Temperature range	mesophilic

Information on physiology and metabolism Physiology and metabolism

[Ref.: #69481]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %97
[Ref.: #69480]	Ability of spore formation	no Confidence in %99.355

Information on isolation source, the sampling and environmental conditions Isolation, sampling and environmental information

[Ref.: #18868]	Sample type/isolated from	captive seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus) with tail rot from a aquarium
[Ref.: #18868]	Host species	Hippocampus guttulatus
[Ref.: #18868]	Geographic location (country and/or sea, region)	Galicia, Vigo, Institute of Marine Research
[Ref.: #18868]	Country	Spain
[Ref.: #18868]	Country ISO 3 Code	ESP
[Ref.: #18868]	Continent	Europe

[Ref.: #67770]	Sample type/isolated from	Seahorse (Hippocampus guttulatus) with tail rot
[Ref.: #67770]	Host species	Hippocampus guttulatus
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Isolation sources categories

#Engineered	#Built environment	#Water reservoir (Aquarium/pool)
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Host	#Fishes	-

What are isolation sources categories?

Information on possible application of the strain and its possible interaction with e.g. potential hosts Safety information

[Ref.: #18868]	Pathogenicity (animal)	yes
[Ref.: #18868]	Biosafety level	2	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Information on genomic background e.g. entries in nucleic sequence databass Sequence information

16S Sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Sequence length (bp)	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #18868]	Mycobacterium hippocampi partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain BFLP-6T	FN430736	1473	ENA	659824 tax ID

Genome sequence information:

	Sequence accession description	Seq. accession number	Assembly level	Sequence database	Associated NCBI tax ID
[Ref.: #66792]	Mycolicibacterium hippocampi JCM 30996	GCA_010723735	contig	GenBank	659824 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Mycolicibacterium hippocampi strain JCM 30996	659824.8	wgs	PATRIC	659824 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Mycolicibacterium hippocampi JCM 30996	2902850712	draft	JGI IMG/M	659824 tax ID	*
[Ref.: #66792]	Mycolicibacterium hippocampi DSM 45391	GCA_025821585	contig	GenBank	659824 tax ID	*

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GC-content

66.7 mol%

thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)

Data predicted using genome information as a basis Genome-based predictions

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 based on: Mycolicibacterium hippocampi strain JCM 30996 PATRIC: 659824.8
[Ref.: #69481]	spore-forming	no	97	no

	Trait	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
	Predictions from Diaspora project based on: Mycolicibacterium hippocampi strain JCM 30996 PATRIC: 659824.8
[Ref.: #69480]	gram-positive	yes	91.326	no
[Ref.: #69480]	anaerobic	no	99.566	no
[Ref.: #69480]	halophile	no	87.867	no
[Ref.: #69480]	spore-forming	no	83.814	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-util	yes	86.635	no
[Ref.: #69480]	thermophile	no	99.336	yes
[Ref.: #69480]	flagellated	no	98.197	no
[Ref.: #69480]	motile	no	93.327	no
[Ref.: #69480]	aerobic	yes	91.782	no
[Ref.: #69480]	glucose-ferment	no	91.302	no

Availability in culture collections External links

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Culture collection no.

DSM 45391, LMG 25372, JCM 30996

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SI-ID 363694

Literature:

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Mycobacterium hippocampi sp. nov., a rapidly growing scotochromogenic species isolated from a seahorse with tail rot.	Balcazar JL, Planas M, Pintado J	Curr Microbiol	10.1007/s00284-014-0588-6	2014	*

References

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Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 45391

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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 )

#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) .

#67770 Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;

#69480

Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Predictions based on genome sequence made in the Diaspora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .

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Xiao-Yin To, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Alice C. McHardy, Philipp C. Münch: Predictions based on the model GenomeNet Sporulation v. 1 . ( DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2527258/v1 )

#87367

Reimer, L.C., Lissin, A.,Schober, I., Witte,J.F., Podstawka, A., Lüken, H., Bunk, B.,Overmann, J.: StrainInfo: A central database for resolving microbial strain identifiers . ( DOI 10.60712/SI-ID363694.1 )

* These data were automatically processed and therefore are not curated

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