Halomonas almeriensis (DSM 23775, CECT 7050, LMG 22904)

Name: Halomonas almeriensis (DSM 23775, CECT 7050, LMG 22904)
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BacDive ID 6048

Type strain

Strain Designation M8

Culture col. no. DSM 23775 CECT 7050 LMG 22904 M8 CIP 108960

NCBI tax ID(s) 308163

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History <- CECT <- F. Martínez-Checa <- M. J. Martínez-Cánovas, Univ. Granada, Campus Cartuja, Fac. Pharmacy, Spain CIP <- 2005, CECT <- F. Martinez-Checa: strain M8

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Halomonas almeriensis M8 is an aerobe, Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that was isolated from hypersaline water from a saltern.

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

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 366364

LMG 22904,CECT 7050,CIP 108960,DSM 23775

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-02-09 11:19:07

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Oceanospirillales

Family Halomonadaceae

Genus Halomonas

Species Halomonas almeriensis

Full scientific name Halomonas almeriensis Martínez-Checa et al. 2005

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
31490	negative	2.25 µm	0.75 µm	rod-shaped
116261	negative			rod-shaped

Pigmentation

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Productionno

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Medium link	Composition
17369	BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514)	Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BACTO MARINE BROTH (DIFCO 2216) (DSMZ Medium 514; with strain-specific modifications) Composition: NaCl 30.0 g/l MgCl2 5.9 g/l Bacto peptone 5.0 g/l Na2SO4 3.24 g/l CaCl2 1.8 g/l Yeast extract 1.0 g/l KCl 0.55 g/l NaHCO3 0.16 g/l Fe(III) citrate 0.1 g/l KBr 0.08 g/l SrCl2 0.034 g/l H3BO3 0.022 g/l Na2HPO4 0.008 g/l Na-silicate 0.004 g/l NaF 0.0024 g/l (NH4)NO3 0.0016 g/l Distilled water
40066	MEDIUM 72- for trypto casein soja agar		Distilled water make up to (1000.000 ml);Trypto casein soy agar (40.000 g)
116261	CIP Medium 204	Medium recipe at CIP
116261	CIP Medium 72	Medium recipe at CIP

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
17369	positive	growth	28
31490	positive	growth	15-37
31490	positive	optimum	26
40066	positive	growth	30

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
31490	positive	optimum	8
31490	positive	growth	06-10	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

31490

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
31490	NaCl	positive	growth	05-25 %
31490	NaCl	positive	optimum	7.5 %

Observation

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Observationaggregates in clumps

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
31490	16449 ChEBI	alanine	+	carbon source
116261	17632 ChEBI	nitrate	-	reduction
116261	16301 ChEBI	nitrite	-	reduction
31490	17822 ChEBI	serine	+	carbon source

Metabolite production

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Production
116261	35581 ChEBI	indole

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
31490	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
68382	acid phosphatase	-	3.1.3.2	from API zym
116261	alcohol dehydrogenase	-	1.1.1.1
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
31490	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
116261	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
116261	lysine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.18
68382	N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase	-	3.2.1.52	from API zym
68382	naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase	-		from API zym
116261	ornithine decarboxylase	-	4.1.1.17
116261	oxidase	-
68382	trypsin	-	3.4.21.4	from API zym
116261	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
116261	-	+	+	+	-	+	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-	-	-

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2
#Environmental	#Aquatic
#Condition	#Saline

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
17369	hypersaline water from a saltern	Almería, Cabo de Gata	Spain	ESP	Europe
116261	Environment, Saltern water		Spain	ESP	Europe

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
17369	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466
116261	1	Risk group (French classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	BV-BRC accession	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	ASM3040923v1 assembly for Halomonas almeriensis CECT 7050	scaffold	GCA_030409235	308163.3	8046480056	308163	74.27

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
17369	Halomonas almeriensis strain M8 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY858696	1459		308163

GC content

@ref	GC-content (mol%)	Method
17369	63.5	thermal denaturation, midpoint method (Tm)
31490	63.5

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Characterization of Chilean hot spring-origin Staphylococcus sp. BSP3 produced exopolysaccharide as biological additive.	Banerjee S, Cabrera-Barjas G, Tapia J, Fabi JP, Delattre C, Banerjee A.	Nat Prod Bioprospect	10.1007/s13659-024-00436-0	2024
Phylogeny	Diversity and distribution of Halomonas in Rambla Salada, a hypersaline environment in the southeast of Spain.	Oueriaghli N, Gonzalez-Domenech CM, Martinez-Checa F, Muyzer G, Ventosa A, Quesada E, Bejar V.	FEMS Microbiol Ecol	10.1111/1574-6941.12237	2014
Metabolism	The potential biotechnological applications of the exopolysaccharide produced by the halophilic bacterium Halomonas almeriensis.	Llamas I, Amjres H, Mata JA, Quesada E, Bejar V.	Molecules	10.3390/molecules17067103	2012
Phylogeny	Structural elucidation of a novel phosphoglycolipid isolated from six species of Halomonas.	Giordano A, Vella FM, Romano I, Gambacorta A	J Lipid Res	10.1194/jlr.M700152-JLR200	2007
Phylogeny	Halomonas almeriensis sp. nov., a moderately halophilic, exopolysaccharide-producing bacterium from Cabo de Gata, Almeria, south-east Spain.	Martinez-Checa F, Bejar V, Martinez-Canovas MJ, Llamas I, Quesada E	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.63676-0	2005

References

#17369	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 23775
#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 )
#27788	IJSEM 2007 2005 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.63676-0 , PubMed 16166703 )
#31490	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 #27788
#40066	; Curators of the CIP;
#68382	Automatically annotated from API zym .
#116261	Collection of Institut Pasteur ; Curators of the CIP; CIP 108960
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#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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Halomonas almeriensis (DSM 23775, CECT 7050, LMG 22904)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Halophily

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Metabolite production

Enzymes

API zym

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_030409235

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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