''Erythrobacter cryptus'' is an aerobic and slightly thermophilic bacteria from the genus ''

Erythrobacter ''Erythrobacter'' is a Gram-negative and rod-shaped bacteria genus from the family Erythrobacteraceae ''Erythrobacteraceae'' is a bacterium family in the order of Sphingomonadales. Phylogeny The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the Lis ...

'' which has been isolated from a

hot spring A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow bodies of magma (molten rock) or by circ ...

from the Alafache Spa in

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

References

External links

Type strain of ''Porphyrobacter cryptus'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Sphingomonadales Bacteria described in 2003 {{Sphingomonadales-stub