Glaciimonas immobilis

Glaciimonas immobilis is a psychrophilic, nonmotile, rod-shaped, Gram-negative bacterium of the genus Glaciimonas which was isolated from alpine glacier cryoconite.[3] Phylogenetic analysis has shown it to belong to the family Oxalobacteraceae.

Glaciimonas immobilis
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G. immobilis
Binomial name
Glaciimonas immobilis
Zhang et al. 2011[1]
Type strain
Cr9-30, DSM 23240, LMG 25547, Margesin Cr9-30[2]

Etymology

Glaciimonas immobilis is composite from the Latin glacies where it was found and immobilis which means motionless.[4]

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