Identification of extensive phenotypic informations of Aeromonas caviae which were isolated from Hypophthalmichthys molitrix and Aristichthys nobilis were conducted, including morphological, physiological and biochemical characteristics. In addition, the molecular identification of representative strain (HC960704-1) were conducted, the 16S rRNA gene were sequenced and compared with that of related strains, molecular phylogenetic tree was constructed; the length of the 16S rRNA gene sequence of representative strain(HC960704-1) is 1416 bp (Database accession numbers in NCBI: AY966888), and the 16S rRNA gene sequence of representative strain (HC960704-1)exhibited high similarity (98% and 100%) with the 16S rRNA gene of Aeromonas from GenBank database.
