Taxonomy
Morphology
Cultural characteristics
Biochemical characters
Ecology
Pathogenicity
References
Phylum Proteobacteria, Class Gammaproteobacteria, Order Enterobacteriales, Family Morganellaceae, Genus Photorhabdus,
Photorhabdus hainanensis (Tailliez et al. 2010) Machado et al. 2018.
Basonym: Photorhabdus luminescens subsp. hainanensis Tailliez et al. 2010.
Gram-negative rods.
Colonies are orange. Maximum temperature for growth is 37-38 ºC in Luria-Bertani
broth. Luminescence is produced.
Isolated from the Heterorhabditis sp. nematode.
Undetermined.
- Machado RAR, Wuthrich D, Kuhnert P, Arce CCM, Thonen L, Ruiz C, Zhang X, Robert CAM, Karimi J, Kamali S, et al. Whole-genome-
based revisit of Photorhabdus phylogeny: proposal for the elevation of most Photorhabdus subspecies to the species level and
description of one novel species Photorhabdus bodei sp. nov., and one novel subspecies Photorhabdus laumondii subsp. clarkei
subsp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2664-2681.
- Tailliez P, Laroui C, Ginibre N, Paule A, Pages S, Boemare N. Phylogeny of Photorhabdus and Xenorhabdus based on universally
conserved protein-coding sequences and implications for the taxonomy of these two genera. Proposal of new taxa: X. vietnamensis
sp. nov., P. luminescens subsp. caribbeanensis subsp. nov., P. luminescens subsp. hainanensis subsp. nov., P. temperata subsp.
khanii subsp. nov., P. temperata subsp. tasmaniensis subsp. nov., and the reclassification of P. luminescens subsp. thracensis as
P. temperata subsp. thracensis comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:1921-1937.
- Glaeser SP, Tobias NJ, Thanwisai A, Chantratita N, Bode HB, Kampfer P. Photorhabdus luminescens subsp. namnaonensis
subsp. nov., isolated from Heterorhabditis baujardi nematodes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:1046-1051.
Positive results for citrate (Simmon's), esculin hydrolysis, indole production, acid production from esculin, L-fucose, glycerol,
gluconate, 5-ketogluconate, mannitol, maltose, N-acetylglucosamine, ribose, trehalose
Can assimilate esculin, inositol, D-mannitol, N-acetylglucosamine, L-histidine and L-fucose.
Negative results for arginine dihydrolase, DN-ase, urease, Voges-Proskauer test, acid production from adonitol, fructose, glucose,
gluconate, mannose, inositol, salicin, sorbitol, and xylitol.
No assimilation of caprate, citrate, L-fucose, L-malate, propionate, trehalose, and xylitol.
(c) Costin Stoica