Chitinimonas taiwanensis

Chitinimonas taiwanensis
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Betaproteobacteria
Order: Burkholderiales
Family: Burkholderiaceae
Genus: Chitinimonas
Species:
C. taiwanensis
Binomial name
Chitinimonas taiwanensis
Chang et al. 2004
Type strain
BCRC 17210, CCRC 17210, DSM 18899, LMG 22011

Chitinimonas taiwanensis is a Gram-negative, chitinolytic, catalase- and oxidase-positive motile bacterium with a single flagellum of the genus Chitinimonas and the family Burkholderiaceae which was isolated from the surface of a freshwater pond for shrimp (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) in Pingtung City in southern Taiwan.