''Blastobacter'' is a genus of

bacteria 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 am ...

from the family

Nitrobacteraceae The Nitrobacteraceae are a family of gram-negative, aerobic bacteria. They include plant-associated bacteria such as ''Bradyrhizobium'', a genus of rhizobia associated with some legumes. It also contains animal-associated bacteria such as '' Af ...

.UniProt
/ref> Most of the species originally ascribed to ''Blastobacter'' have been transferred to other genera, with ''Blastobacter henricii'' as the only remaining

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species.LPSN entry for ''Blastobacter''
/ref> To complicate matters, no

type strain The International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP) formerly the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria (ICNB) or Bacteriological Code (BC) governs the scientific names for Bacteria and Archaea.P. H. A. Sneath, 2003. A short hist ...

is available for ''Blastobacter henricii'', so the entire genus may be dismantled.

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