Aurantiacibacter atlanticus

Aurantiacibacter atlanticus
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Sphingomonadales
Family: Erythrobacteraceae
Genus: Aurantiacibacter
Species:
A. atlanticus
Binomial name
Aurantiacibacter atlanticus
(Zhuang et al. 2015) Xu et al. 2020
Synonyms
  • Erythrobacter atlanticus Zhuang et al. 2015

Aurantiacibacter atlanticus is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped and motile bacteria from the genus Aurantiacibacter which has been isolated from deep-sea sediments from the Atlantic Ocean. Erythrobacter atlanticus has the ability to degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.