Alcanivorax

Alcanivorax is a genus of alkane-degrading marine bacteria.

Alcanivorax
An oil spill being treated with Alcanivorax
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Oceanospirillales
Family: Alcanivoracaceae
Genus: Alcanivorax
Yakimov et al. 1998
Type species
Alcanivorax borkumensis
Species

See text.

Synonyms
  • Fundibacter Bruns and Berthe-Corti 1999

Species

Alcanivorax comprises the following species:[1]

  • Alcanivorax balearicus Rivas et al. 2007
  • Alcanivorax borkumensis Yakimov et al. 1998
  • Alcanivorax dieselolei Liu and Shao 2005
  • Alcanivorax gelatiniphagus Kwon et al. 2015
  • Alcanivorax hongdengensis Wu et al. 2009
  • Alcanivorax indicus Song et al. 2018
  • Alcanivorax jadensis (Bruns and Berthe-Corti 1999) Fernández-Martínez et al. 2003
  • "Alcanivorax limicola" Zhu et al. 2021
  • Alcanivorax marinus Lai et al. 2013
  • Alcanivorax mobilis Yang et al. 2018
  • Alcanivorax nanhaiticus Lai et al. 2016
  • Alcanivorax pacificus Lai et al. 2011
  • Alcanivorax profundi Liu et al. 2019
  • Alcanivorax profundimaris Dong et al. 2021
  • Alcanivorax sediminis Liao et al. 2020
  • Alcanivorax venustensis Fernández-Martínez et al. 2003
  • Alcanivorax xenomutans Rahul et al. 2014

References

  1. Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Alcanivorax". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved March 19, 2022.
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