''Ferrimonas kyonanensis'' is a facultatively anaerobic and

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bacterium from the genus of ''

Ferrimonas ''Ferrimonas'' is a genus of bacteria from the family of Ferrimonadaceae Ferrimonadaceae is a family in the order of Alteromonadales The Alteromonadales are an order of Pseudomonadota. Although they have been treated as a single family, th ...

'' which has been isolated from the alimentary tract of a

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from the

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Bacteria described in 2006 Alteromonadales {{Alteromonadales-stub