Chitinispirillum

Chitinispirillum
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Fibrobacterota
Class: Chitinispirillia
Sorokin et al. 2016
Order: Chitinispirillales
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Family: Chitinispirillaceae
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Genus: Chitinispirillum
Sorokin et al. 2016
Species:
C. alkaliphilum
Binomial name
Chitinispirillum alkaliphilum
Sorokin et al. 2016

Chitinispirillum is a genus of bacteria with one known species, Chitinispirillum alkaliphilum. It is the only member of the family Chitinispirillaceae, order Chitinivibrionales, and class Chitinivibrionia. Chitinispirillum alkaliphilum has been isolated from hypersaline lake sediments from the Wadi el Natrun valley in Egypt.

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