Family  Vibrionaceae
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Gram negative straight or curved rods, motile by polar flagella,
facultative anaerobes, ferment D-glucose, reduce nitrate to nitrite,
oxidase test is positive, primarily aquatic, 11 species are apparently
pathogenic for humans causing diarrhea or extraintestinal infections
and several species cause diseases of other vertebrates and
invertebrates.Type species: Vibrio cholerae Pacini 1854
Straight rods or coccobacillary , bipolar, Gram negative,
motile by 1-3 unsheathed polar flagella, facultative
anaerobic. Na+ required for growth, colonies are smooth,
semitranslucent, convex, ivory. Susceptible to O/129 agent,
some strains emit light due luciferase, isolated from the
marine environment & specialized light organs of marine
fish. Type species: Photobacterium phosphoreum  (Cohn
1878) Beijerinck 1889.
Genus  Photobacterium
NOTE

Vibrio carchariae  Grimes et al.
1985 and Vibrio trachuri  Iwamoto
et al. 1996 are  junior synonyms of
Vibrio harveyi (Johnson and Shunk
1936) Baumann et al. 1981.

Vibrio shilonii corrig. Kushmaro et
al. 2001 is considered a junior
synonym of  Vibrio mediterranei
Pujalte and Garay 1986.
Genus  Vibrio
Genus  Aliivibrio
Genus Grimontia
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Genus Salinivibrio
Genus Enterovibrio
Most of the members of this genus were
formerly included in the Vibrio genus.
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* species not included in ABIS biochemical database
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Photobacterium damselae
subsp. damselae is a junior  
synonym of Vibrio damsela.

Vibrio pelagius and Vibrio
anguillarum are synonyms of
Listonella pelagia and Listonella
anguillarum, respectively.
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