Janthinobacterium

Janthinobacterium is a genus of Gram-negative soil bacteria. The name is from Latin janthinus, which means "violet" or "violet-blue". It produces distinct purple-violet pigments among which are jagaricin and violacein, manifests diverse energy metabolism abilities, and tolerates cold, ultraviolet radiation, and other environmental stressors.^[2]

Janthinobacterium
The bacterium Janthinobacterium lividum on a TY agar plate
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Betaproteobacteria
Order:	Burkholderiales
Family:	Oxalobacteraceae
Genus:	Janthinobacterium De Ley et al. 1978 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Lincoln et al. 1999
Type species
Janthinobacterium lividum
Species
J. agaricidamnosum[1] J. aquaticum[1] J. lividum[1] J. psychrotolerans[1] J. rivuli[1] J. svalbardensis[1] J. violaceinigrum[1]