| Photorhabdus tasmaniensis |
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Phylum Proteobacteria, Class Gammaproteobacteria, Order Enterobacteriales, Family Morganellaceae, Genus Photorhabdus,
Photorhabdus tasmaniensis (Tailliez et al. 2010) Machado et al. 2018.
Basonym: Photorhabdus temperata subsp. tasmaniensis Tailliez et al. 2010.
Photorhabdus tasmaniensis (Tailliez et al. 2010) Machado et al. 2018.
Basonym: Photorhabdus temperata subsp. tasmaniensis Tailliez et al. 2010.
Gram-negative rods.
Maximum temperature for growth is 33-34 ºC in Luria-Bertani broth. Luminescence is
produced. One of the three strains described produce yellow colonies; the other two
strains are non-pigmented.
produced. One of the three strains described produce yellow colonies; the other two
strains are non-pigmented.
Isolated from the nematode Heterorhabditis zealandica.
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.
Positive results for acid production from trehalose. Can assimilate cis-aconitate,
citrate and D-glucuronate.
Negative results for acid production from salicin.
citrate and D-glucuronate.
Negative results for acid production from salicin.
(c) Costin Stoica
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