Colwellia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
Order: | Alteromonadales |
Family: | Colwelliaceae |
Genus: | Colwellia Deming et al. 1988[1] |
Type species | |
Colwellia psychrerythraea[1] | |
Species | |
C. aestuarii[1] |
Colwellia is a genus of deep-sea psychrophilic, piezophilic, and facultative anaerobic bacteria from the family Colwelliaceae.[1][2][3][4][5] Colwellia grows at a temperature at −20 °C by producing cryoprotective polymeric substances.[6]