Halomonas venusta
Halomonas venusta is a Gram-negative halophilic Pseudomonadota, first described as "Alcaligenes venustus" (Baumann "et al". 1972) and later reclassified as "Halomonas venusta", along with other species when the genera "Deleya" (Baumann "et al". 1983), "Halomonas" (Vreeland "et al". 1980), and "Halovibrio" (Fendrich 1988) and the species "Paracoccus halodenitrificans" (Robinson and Gibbons 1952) were unified into a single genus, "Halomonas", while the genus "Zymobacter" was placed in the family Halomonadaceae. The name stems from the Latin noun "venusta" which means "lovely" or "beautiful". It was originally isolated in marine water from Hawaii.