''Novosphingobium indicum'' is a bacterium from the genus ''

Novosphingobium ''Novosphingobium'' is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria that includes ''N. taihuense'', which can degrade aromatic compounds such as phenol, aniline, nitrobenzene and phenanthrene. The species ''N. aromativorans'', which was first found in Uls ...

'' which has been isolated from deep-sea water from the

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by ...

. Novosphingobium indicum hasd the ability to degrade

polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) is a class of organic compounds that is composed of multiple aromatic rings. The simplest representative is naphthalene, having two aromatic rings and the three-ring compounds anthracene and phenanthrene. ...

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External links

Type strain of ''Novosphingobium indicum'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Bacteria described in 2009 Sphingomonadales {{Sphingomonadales-stub