Chitinivibrio

Chitinivibrio
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Fibrobacterota
Class: Chitinivibrionia
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Order: Chitinivibrionales
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Family: Chitinivibrionaceae
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Genus: Chitinivibrio
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Species:
C. alkaliphilus
Binomial name
Chitinivibrio alkaliphilus
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Chitinivibrio is an extremely haloalkaliphilic genus of bacteria with one known species, Chitinivibrio alkaliphilus. It is the only member of the family Chitinivibrionaceae, the order Chitinivibrionales and class Chitinivibrionia. Chitinivibrio alkaliphilus has been isolated from hypersaline lake sediments from Wadi al Natrun in Egypt.

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