Culturable Aerobic and Facultative Anaerobic Intestinal Bacterial Flora of Black Cobra (Naja naja karachiensis) in Southern Pakistan

Table 1

Colonial and cellular characteristics of Black Pakistani Cobra (Naja naja karachiensis) bacterial gut isolates.

Isolates	Colonial characters						Cellular characters
	Shape	Margin	Elevation	Color	Opacity	Consistency	Gram Staining	Shape	Spore Formation	Motility
C1	Round	Smooth	Convex	Red	Opaque	Moist	Negative	Rods	−	+
C2	Round	Irregular	Flat	Brownish pink	Opaque	Moist	Negative	Rods	−	+
C3	Round	Smooth	Convex	Off white	Opaque	Moist	Negative	Rods	−	−
C4	Round	Smooth	Convex	Cream	Opaque	Moist	Negative	Rods	−	+
C5	Round	Smooth	Convex	Yellow	Opaque	Moist	Negative	Rods	−	−
C6	Round	Smooth	Convex	Off white	Opaque	Moist	Negative	Rods	−	+
C7	Round	Smooth	Convex	Off white	Opaque	Moist	Negative	Rods	−	+
C8	Round	Smooth	Flat	Brownish pink	Opaque	Moist	Negative	Rods	−	+
C9	Round	Smooth	Convex	Off white	Opaque	Moist	Negative	Rods	−	+
C10	Round	Smooth	Flat	Brownish pink	Opaque	Moist	Negative	Rods	−	+
C11	Round	Smooth	Convex	Off white	Opaque	Moist	Negative	Rods	−	+
C12	Round	Smooth	Convex	Off white	Opaque	Moist	Negative	Rods	−	−
C13	Round	Smooth	Convex	Off white	Opaque	Moist	Negative	Rods	−	+
C14	Round	Irregular	Flat	White	Opaque	Dry	Positive	Rods	+	ND
C15	Round	Smooth	Convex	Off white	Opaque	Moist	Negative	Rods	−	+
C16	Round	Smooth	Convex	Off white	Opaque	Moist	Negative	Rods	−	−
C17	Round	Smooth	Convex	Off white	Opaque	Moist	Negative	Rods	−	+
C18	Round	Smooth	Convex	Off white	Opaque	Moist	Negative	Rods	−	−
C19	Round	Smooth	Convex	Off white	Opaque	Moist	Negative	Rods	−	+

ND: not determined.