Halanaerobacter chitinovorans

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]

Halanaerobacter chitinovorans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Firmicutes
Class:
Clostridia
Order:
Halanaerobiales
Family:
Halobacteroidaceae
Genus:
Halanaerobacter
Species:
H. chitinovorans

corrig. Liaw and Mah 1996

References
  1. 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. PMC 195201. PMID 16348626.

Further reading
  • Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey’s manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 3. Springer, 2012.
  • Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 4: Bacteria: Firmicutes, Cyanobacteria. Vol. 4. Springer, 2006.
  • Oren, Aharon. Halophilic microorganisms and their environments. Vol. 5. Springer, 2002.
  • 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.


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