Oceanobacillus oncorhynchi is a halotolerant, obligately alkaliphilic bacterium first isolated from the skin of a rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss), hence its name.

It is Gram-positive, rod-shaped and motile by peritrichous flagella and produces ellipsoidal spores.

The type strain is R-2(T) (=JCM 12661(T) =NCIMB 14022(T)).

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