Halanaerobacter chitinovorans
| Halanaerobacter chitinovorans | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Halanaerobiales |
| Family: | Halobacteroidaceae |
| Genus: | Halanaerobacter |
| Species: | H. chitinovorans
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| Binomial name | |
| Halanaerobacter chitinovorans corrig. Liaw and Mah 1996
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Halanaerobacter chitinovorans is a species of bacteria, the type species of its genus. It is a halophilic, anaerobic, chitinolytic bacterium. Its cells are long, gram-negative, motile, flexible rods.[1]
References
- ^ H. J. Liaw & R. A. Mah (January 1992). "Isolation and Characterization of Haloanaerobacter chitinovorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a Halophilic, Anaerobic, Chitinolytic Bacterium from a Solar Saltern". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 58 (1): 260–266. doi:10.1128/aem.58.1.260-266.1992. PMC 195201. PMID 16348626.
Further reading
- Patel, B (1995). "Reevaluating the classification of Halobacteroides and Haloanaerobacter species based on sequence comparisons of the 16S ribosomal RNA gene". FEMS Microbiology Letters. 134 (1): 115–119. doi:10.1016/0378-1097(95)00395-L. ISSN 0378-1097. PMID 8593948.