Alcanivorax is a genus of alkane-degrading marine bacteria.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Oceanospirillales |
| Family: | Alcanivoracaceae |
| Genus: | Alcanivorax Yakimov et al. 1998 |
| Type species | |
| Alcanivorax borkumensis | |
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Species
editAlcanivorax 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
edit- ^ Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Alcanivorax". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved March 19, 2022.