Halochromatium roseum

{{short description|Genus of bacteria}}

{{Taxobox

| domain = Bacteria

| phylum = Pseudomonadota

| classis = Gammaproteobacteria

| ordo = Chromatiales

| familia = Chromatiaceae

| genus = Halochromatium

| genus_authority =

| species = H. roseum

| binomial = Halochromatium roseum

| binomial_authority = Anil Kumar et al. 2007{{cite journal |title=Halochromatium |journal=LPSN |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/halochromatium}}

| type_strain = ATCC BAA-1363, DSM 18859, JCM 14151, strain JA134{{cite journal |title=Halochromatium roseum |website=www.uniprot.org |url=https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/391920}}

| subdivision =

| synonyms = Halochromatium rosei
Lamprobacter pseudofilamentous

}}

Halochromatium roseum is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, phototrophic and non-motile bacterium from the genus of Halochromatium which has been isolated from a marine solar saltern from Kakinada in India.{{cite journal |last1=Parker |first1=Charles Thomas |last2=Garrity |first2=George M |editor1-first=Charles Thomas |editor1-last=Parker |editor2-first=George M |editor2-last=Garrity |title=Taxonomic Abstract for the species. |date=1 August 2008 |doi=10.1601/tx.11379 |publisher=NamesforLife, LLC |language=en}}{{cite journal |title=Details: DSM-18859 |website=www.dsmz.de |url=https://www.dsmz.de/catalogues/details/culture/DSM-18859.html}}{{cite journal |last1=Kumar |first1=PA |last2=Srinivas |first2=TN |last3=Sasikala |first3=Ch |last4=Ramana |first4=ChV |title=Halochromatium roseum sp. nov., a non-motile phototrophic gammaproteobacterium with gas vesicles, and emended description of the genus Halochromatium. |journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology |date=September 2007 |volume=57 |issue=Pt 9 |pages=2110–3 |doi=10.1099/ijs.0.65034-0 |pmid=17766881|doi-access=free }}