"''Erythrobacter tepidarius''" is a moderately thermophilic and
non-motile bacteria from the genus of ''
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
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in
Usami in
Japan
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.
References
Further reading
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External links
Type strain of ''Porphyrobacter tepidarius'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Sphingomonadales
Bacteria described in 1997
Thermophiles
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