''Paracoccus thiocyanatus'' is a
coccoid bacterium
Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were among ...
.
It utilises
thiocyanate
Thiocyanate (also known as rhodanide) is the anion . It is the conjugate base of thiocyanic acid. Common derivatives include the colourless salts potassium thiocyanate and sodium thiocyanate. Mercury(II) thiocyanate was formerly used in pyrot ...
and is a facultative
chemolithotroph
Lithotrophs are a diverse group of organisms using an inorganic substrate (usually of mineral origin) to obtain reducing equivalents for use in biosynthesis (e.g., carbon dioxide fixation) or energy conservation (i.e., ATP production) via aerobi ...
. Its type strain is THI 011
T, and it is most related to ''
Paracoccus aminophilus''.
References
Further reading
* van Verseveld, H.W. and
Stouthamer, A.H. (1999)
''The Genus Paracoccus'' The Prokaryotes. 3rd edition, release 3.0. Springer-Verlag, New York.
External links
Type strain of ''Paracoccus thiocyanatus'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Rhodobacteraceae
Bacteria described in 1995
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