Chitinivibrio
| Chitinivibrio | |
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| Scientific classification | |
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| Class: | Chitinivibrionia Sorokin et al. 2014 |
| Order: | Chitinivibrionales Sorokin et al. 2014 |
| Family: | Chitinivibrionaceae Sorokin et al. 2014 |
| Genus: | Chitinivibrio Sorokin et al. 2014 |
| Type species | |
| Chitinivibrio alkaliphilus Sorokin et al. 2014 | |
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Chitinivibrio is an extremely haloalkaliphilic genus of bacteria from the family of Chitinivibrionaceae with one known species (Chitinivibrio alkaliphilus). Chitinivibrio alkaliphilus has been isolated from hypersaline lake sediments from Wadi al Natrun in Egypt.