title: Tenacibaculum skagerrakense
text: # Tenacibaculum skagerrakense
  
  Tenacibaculum skagerrakense is a bacterium. It is named after Skagerrak, Denmark, where it was first isolated. Its type strain is $D30^T$ (=ATCC $BAA-458^T$ =DSM $14836^T).$
  
  ## Description
  
  It is Gram-negative, oxidase- and catalase-positive. Cells are rods (0.5–15 micrometres in length) during exponential growth; spherical cells occur in stationary phase. Colonies are bright yellow and flexirubin-type pigment is absent.
  
  