Legionella tunisiensis (DSM 24805, CSUR P145, LegM)

Name: Legionella tunisiensis (DSM 24805, CSUR P145, LegM)
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BacDive ID 6789

Type strain

Strain Designation LegM

Culture col. no. DSM 24805 CSUR P145 LegM

NCBI tax ID(s) 1034944

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Legionella tunisiensis LegM is a mesophilic, Gram-negative, rod-shaped prokaryote that was isolated from water from a hypersaline lake.

Gram-negative rod-shaped mesophilic genome sequence 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 404181

DSM 24805

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:48:25

Domain Pseudomonadati

Phylum Pseudomonadota

Class Gammaproteobacteria

Order Legionellales

Family Legionellaceae

Genus Legionella

Species Legionella tunisiensis

Full scientific name Legionella tunisiensis Campocasso et al. 2012

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Confidence
30516	negative	1.5 µm	0.54 µm	rod-shaped
125439	negative				98.4

Colony morphology

17778

Incubation period2-3 days

Pigmentation

30516

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
17778	BCYE-AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: BCYE AGAR (DSMZ Medium 585) Composition: OXOID Legionella CYE-Agar base

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
17778	positive	growth	30	mesophilic
30516	positive	growth	25-37	mesophilic

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

@ref	Oxygen tolerance	Confidence
125439	obligate aerobe	95.2

Spore formation

@ref	Spore formation	Confidence
125439		98.5

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Aquatic	#Lake (large)
#Condition	#Saline	-

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Geographic location	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent
17778	water from a hypersaline lake	Lake Sabkha	Tunisia	TUN	Africa

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence JF779686 (>99% sequence identity) for Legionella tunisiensis from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	61
Soil Samples	65
Animal Samples	5
Plant Samples	16
Total Samples	147

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
17778	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
66792	ASM30831v1 assembly for Legionella tunisiensis LegM	contig	GCA_000308315	1034944.5	2551306136	1034944

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
17778	Legionella tunisiensis strain LegM 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JF779686	1507		1034944

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Legionella tunisiensis LegM
NCBI: GCA_000308315

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	no	98.50	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	56.10	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	negative	98.40	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	95.20	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Phylogeny	Legionella tunisiensis sp. nov. and Legionella massiliensis sp. nov., isolated from environmental water samples.	Campocasso A, Boughalmi M, Fournous G, Raoult D, La Scola B	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.037853-0	2012

References

#17778	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 24805
#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 )
#26848	IJSEM 3003 2012 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.037853-0 , PubMed 22307511 )
#30516	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 #26848
#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 .
#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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Legionella tunisiensis (DSM 24805, CSUR P145, LegM)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Colony morphology

Pigmentation

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_000308315

16S sequences

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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