Pingtung City
Chitinimonas taiwanensis is a Gram-negative, chitinolytic, catalase- and oxidase-positive motile bacterium with a single flagellum of the genus "Chitinimonas" and the family of Burkholderiaceae which was isolated from the surface of a freshwater pond for shrimp ("Macrobrachium rosenbergii") in Pingtung City in southern Taiwan.