Neptunomonas concharum is a species of bacteria. It is Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, motile and rod-shaped, its type strain being LHW37T (=KACC 15543T =JCM 17730T). This species was first isolated from a dead ark clam, hence the specific epithet "concharum", meaning "of the shells".
References
Further reading Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey's manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 5. Springer, 2012. Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 6: Proteobacteria: Gamma Subclass. Vol. 6. Springer, 2006.
Acton, Q. Ashton. Issues in Biological and Life Sciences Research: 2012 Edition. ScholarlyEditions, 2013.
External links LPSN Type strain of Neptunomonas concharum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase