Colwellia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Bacteria
- Phylum
- Proteobacteria
- Class
- Gammaproteobacteria
- Order
- Alteromonadales
- Family
- Colwelliaceae
- Genus
- Colwellia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Colwellia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Colwellia
Colwellia is a genus of deep-sea psychrophilic, piezophilic, and facultative anaerobic bacteria from the family Colwelliaceae. Colwellia can survive at subzero temperatures by producing cryoprotective polymeric substances.
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