“…Edition (Buchanan and Gibbons, 1974) and a marine representative, Chromobacterium marinum (Hamilton and Austin, 1967), but also to the Alteromonas luteo-violaceus of Gauthier (1976). The only apparent distinction of taxonomic value is the moles % (G+C), which is about 42 for Alteromonas and 65-72 for Chromobacterium.…”