Rheinheimera chironomi (DSM 18694, LMG 23818, K19414)

Name: Rheinheimera chironomi (DSM 18694, LMG 23818, K19414)
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BacDive ID 2459

Type strain

Strain Designation K19414

Culture col. no. DSM 18694 LMG 23818 K19414

NCBI tax ID(s) 358592

Special Collections DSMZ Literature strains

History DSMZ <- M. Halpern, Dept. Biol., Faculty of Sci. and Sci. Education, Univ. Haifa, Oranim, Tivon, Israel; K19414 <- O. Landsberg, D. Raats and M. Halpern

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Rheinheimera chironomi K19414 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, motile bacterium that was isolated from chironomid egg mass which was sampled from Kishon River.

Gram-negative motile rod-shaped aerobe 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 292553

LMG 23818,DSM 18694

@ref 20215

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

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Chromatiales

Family Chromatiaceae

Genus Rheinheimera

Species Rheinheimera chironomi

Full scientific name Rheinheimera chironomi Halpern et al. 2007

Synonyms (1)

"Pararheinheimera chironomi"

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
32078	negative	1.7 µm	0.5 µm	rod-shaped

Pigmentation

32078

Productionno

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
7660	HALF STRENGTH BACTO MARINE BROTH (DSMZ Medium 514a)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: HALF STRENGTH BACTO MARINE BROTH (DSMZ Medium 514a) Composition: Agar 15.0 g/l NaCl 9.725 g/l MgCl2 2.95 g/l Bacto peptone 2.5 g/l Na2SO4 1.62 g/l CaCl2 0.9 g/l Yeast extract 0.5 g/l KCl 0.275 g/l NaHCO3 0.08 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.05 g/l KBr 0.04 g/l SrCl2 0.017 g/l H3BO3 0.011 g/l Na2HPO4 0.004 g/l Na-silicate 0.002 g/l NaF 0.0012 g/l (NH4)NO3 0.0008 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
7660	positive	growth	37
32078	positive	growth	04-40
32078	positive	optimum	33.5

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

32078

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
32078	NaCl	positive	growth	0-2 %
32078	NaCl	positive	optimum	0.75 %

Observation

32078

Observationaggregates in clumps

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
32078	16449 ChEBI	alanine	+	carbon source
32078	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
32078	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
32078	25115 ChEBI	malate	+	carbon source
32078	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
32078	51850 ChEBI	methyl pyruvate	+	carbon source
32078	506227 ChEBI	N-acetylglucosamine	+	carbon source
32078	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	+	reduction
32078	30031 ChEBI	succinate	+	carbon source
32078	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source
32078	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	+	carbon source
32078	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
32078	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
32078	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
32078	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
32078	gelatinase	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#River (Creek)
#Host	#Arthropoda	#Insecta
#Host Body Product	#Urogenital tract	#Egg

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
7660	chironomid (Diptera; Chironomidae) egg mass which was sampled from Kishon River	northern part, near Haifa	Israel	ISR	Asia

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
7660	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
7660	Rheinheimera chironomi strain K19414 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	DQ298025	1499		358592

GC content

7660

GC-content (mol%)49.9

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Rheinheimera riviphila sp. nov., isolated from a freshwater stream.	Chen WM, Chen WT, Young CC, Sheu SY	Arch Microbiol	10.1007/s00203-019-01657-5	2019
Phylogeny	Rheinheimera salexigens sp. nov., isolated from a fishing hook, and emended description of the genus Rheinheimera.	Hayashi K, Busse HJ, Golke J, Anderson J, Wan X, Hou S, Chain PSG, Prescott RD, Donachie SP	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.002412	2017
Phylogeny	Rheinheimera arenilitoris sp. nov., isolated from seashore sand.	Park S, Park JM, Won SM, Jung YT, Yoon JH	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.067504-0	2014
Phylogeny	Rheinheimera soli sp. nov., a gammaproteobacterium isolated from soil in Korea.	Ryu SH, Chung BS, Park M, Lee SS, Lee SS, Jeon CO	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.65489-0	2008
Phylogeny	Rheinheimera chironomi sp. nov., isolated from a chironomid (Diptera; Chironomidae) egg mass.	Halpern M, Senderovich Y, Snir S	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.64927-0	2007

References

#7660	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 18694
#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 )
#28324	IJSEM 1872 2007 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.64927-0 , PubMed 17684273 )
#32078	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #28324
#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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Rheinheimera chironomi (DSM 18694, LMG 23818, K19414)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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