Halomonas alkaliphila (DSM 16354, ATCC BAA-953, 18bAG)

Name: Halomonas alkaliphila (DSM 16354, ATCC BAA-953, 18bAG)
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BacDive ID 6061

Type strain

Strain Designation 18bAG

Culture col. no. DSM 16354 ATCC BAA-953 18bAG

NCBI tax ID(s) 272774

Special Collections DSMZ

History DSMZ <- I. Romano, Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare, Pozzuoli, Napoli; 18bAG

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Halomonas alkaliphila 18bAG is a bacterium that was isolated from salt pool, algal mat.

genome sequence 16S sequence Bacteria

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 201366

LMG 29775,ATCC BAA-953,DSM 16354

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2026-05-29 08:26:19

Domain Bacteria

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Oceanospirillales

Family Halomonadaceae

Genus Halomonas

Species Halomonas alkaliphila

Full scientific name Halomonas alkaliphila Romano et al. 2007

Synonyms (1)

Vreelandella alkaliphila

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Confidence
125438	negative	99.5
125439	negative	97.744

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
6398	MEDIUM 514 PLUS ADDITIONAL SALT (DSMZ Medium 514b)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: MEDIUM 514 PLUS ADDITIONAL SALT (DSMZ Medium 514b) Composition: NaCl 19.45 g/l Agar 17.5 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

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)
6398	positive	growth	37

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	facultative anaerobe	91.648

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		99.916

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Engineered	#Built environment	#Water reservoir (Aquarium/pool)
#Environmental	#Microbial community	#Microbial mat
#Host	#Algae	-
#Condition	#Saline	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
6398	salt pool, algal mat	Campania, Montefredane	Italy	ITA	Europe

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AJ640133 (>99% sequence identity) for Halomonas from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	62
Soil Samples	3
Animal Samples	12
Plant Samples	1
Total Samples	78

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
6398	1	Risk group (German 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	ASM3384276v1 assembly for Vreelandella alkaliphila ATCC BAA-953	contig	GCA_033842765	272774.12		272774	78.05
66792	ASM1610762v1 assembly for Vreelandella alkaliphila DSM 16354	contig	GCA_016107625	272774.6	8069416549	272774	69.36

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
6398	Halomonas alkaliphila partial 16S rRNA gene, type strain 18bAGT	AJ640133	1500		272774

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: ASM3384276v1 assembly for Vreelandella alkaliphila ATCC BAA-953
NCBI: GCA_033842765

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	facultative anaerobe	91.65	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	97.74	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	81.48	no
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	99.92	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Halomonas alkaliphila strain DSM 16354
PATRIC: 272774.6

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	no	99.50	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	95.74	no
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	no	87.73	no
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	97.85	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	84.61	no
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	82.14	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Validation List no. 216. Valid publication of new names and new combinations effectively published outside the IJSEM.	Oren A, Goker M.	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijsem.0.006229	2024
Phylogeny	Halomonas zhaodongensis sp. nov., a slightly halophilic bacterium isolated from saline-alkaline soils in Zhaodong, China.	Jiang J, Pan Y, Meng L, Hu S, Zhang X, Hu B, Meng J, Li C, Huang H, Wang K, Su T	Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek	10.1007/s10482-013-9976-3	2013
Phylogeny	Halomonas alkaliphila sp. nov., a novel halotolerant alkaliphilic bacterium isolated from a salt pool in Campania (Italy).	Romano I, Lama L, Nicolaus B, Poli A, Gambacorta A, Giordano A	J Gen Appl Microbiol	10.2323/jgam.52.339	2006

References

#6398	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 16354
#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 )
#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) .
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#124043	Isabel Schober, Julia Koblitz: Data extracted from sequence databases, automatically matched based on designation and taxonomy .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#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 alkaliphila (DSM 16354, ATCC BAA-953, 18bAG)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

Genome browser: GCA_033842765

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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