Desulfocurvibacter africanus (DSM 4195, B-1622, VKM B-1622)

Name: Desulfocurvibacter africanus (DSM 4195, B-1622, VKM B-1622)
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BacDive ID 4090

Type strain

Strain Designation B-1622

Culture col. no. DSM 4195 B-1622 VKM B-1622

NCBI tax ID(s) 873

Special Collections DSMZ

Desulfocurvibacter africanus B-1622 is an anaerobe, mesophilic prokaryote that was isolated from marine sediment.

anaerobe mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

Culture Collection Numbers

DSM 4195 B-1622 VKM B-1622

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:47:43

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Thermodesulfobacteriota

Class Desulfovibrionia

Order Desulfovibrionales

Family Desulfovibrionaceae

Genus Desulfocurvibacter

Species Desulfocurvibacter africanus

Full scientific name Desulfocurvibacter africanus (Campbell et al. 1966) Spring et al. 2019

Synonyms (1)

Desulfovibrio africanus

Morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
1613	HALODESULFOVIBRIO (POSTGATE) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 163)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: HALODESULFOVIBRIO (POSTGATE) MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 163) Composition: NaCl 25.0 g/l Na-DL-lactate 2.0 g/l MgSO4 x 7 H2O 2.0 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l Na2SO4 1.0 g/l NH4Cl 1.0 g/l FeSO4 x 7 H2O 0.5 g/l K2HPO4 0.5 g/l Na-thioglycolate 0.1 g/l CaCl2 x 2 H2O 0.1 g/l Ascorbic acid 0.1 g/l Sodium resazurin 0.00049 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
1613	positive	growth	35	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

1613

Oxygen toleranceanaerobe

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Marine
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Sediment

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Latitude	Longitude
1613	marine sediment	Black Sea	Turkey	TUR	Asia	42.2333	35.3 42.2333/35.3

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Sequence information

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
124043	Desulfovibrio sp. strain DSM 4195, strain VKM B-1622 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	PV954760	1541		885

Genome-based predictions

Literature

References

#1613	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 4195
#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 )
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .

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