''Comamonas terrigena'' is a
Gram-negative, rod-shaped
bacterium from the
genus ''
Comamonas
''Comamonas'' is a genus of bacteria in the phylum Pseudomonadota.Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, ...
'' and the family of
Comamonadaceae
The Comamonadaceae are a family of the Betaproteobacteria.Willems A., J. De Ley, M. Gillis, and K. Kersters. ''Comamonadaceae, a New Family Encompassing the Acidovorans rRNA Complex, Including Variovorax paradoxus gen. nov.,comb. nov. for Alcali ...
, which was isolated from contaminated soil in
Slovakia. ''C. terrigena'' has the ability to degrade
phenols.
References
External links
Type strain of ''Comamonas terrigena'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Comamonadaceae
Bacteria described in 1985
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