Vibrio caribbeanicus sp. nov., isolated from the marine sponge Scleritoderma cyanea

A Gram-negative, oxidase-positive, catalase-negative, facultatively anaerobic, motile, curved rod-shaped bacterium, strain N384 T , was isolated from a marine sponge ( Scleritoderma cyanea ; phylum Porifera) collected from a depth of 795 feet (242 m) off the west coast of Curaçao. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequencing, strain N384 T was shown to belong to the genus Vibrio , most closely related to Vibrio brasiliensis LMG 20546 T (98.8 %...