Chlorobium limicola (DSM 248, 1830)

Name: Chlorobium limicola (DSM 248, 1830)
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BacDive ID 2404

Type strain

Strain Designation 1830

Culture col. no. DSM 248 1830

NCBI tax ID(s) 1092

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- N. Pfennig, 1830

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Chlorobium limicola 1830 is an anaerobe bacterium that was isolated from polluted pond.

anaerobe Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 47113

DSM 248

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:25:28

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Chlorobiota

Class Chlorobiia

Order Chlorobiales

Family Chlorobiaceae

Genus Chlorobium

Species Chlorobium limicola

Full scientific name Chlorobium limicola Nadson 1906 (Approved Lists 1980)

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Chlorobium limicola** (2)	Type strain
2403	C. limicola 6330, DSM 245, NBRC 103803 (type strain)
2405	C. limicola 9330, DSM 258, Pfennig 9330

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
87	PFENNIG'S MEDIUM II (modified 1988, for green sulfur bacteria) (DSMZ Medium 29)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: PFENNIG'S MEDIUM II (DSMZ Medium 29) Composition: NaHCO3 1.5 g/l Na2S x 9 H2O 0.592592 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 0.52 g/l Ammonium chloride 0.364 g/l KCl 0.364 g/l KH2PO4 0.364 g/l Dextrose 0.26 g/l Pyruvic acid sodium salt 0.26 g/l Ammonium acetate 0.26 g/l Yeast extract 0.25 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.25 g/l Resazurin 0.00225 g/l HCl 0.002002 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.00156 g/l Vitamin B12 0.001 g/l H3BO3 0.000312 g/l CoCl2 x 6 H2O 0.0001976 g/l MnCl2 x 4 H2O 0.000104 g/l ZnCl2 7.28e-05 g/l Na2MoO4 x 2 H2O 3.744e-05 g/l NiCl2 x 6 H2O 2.496e-05 g/l CuCl2 x 2 H2O 2.08e-06 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
87	positive	growth	25

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Contamination	-
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Pond (small)

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
87	polluted pond	Zeulenroda, Thüringen	Germany	DEU	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
87	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

GC content

GC-content (mol%)51.5

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#87	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 248
#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 )
#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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