Ammoniphilus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Division: | Firmicutes |
Class: | Bacilli |
Order: | Bacillales |
Family: | Paenibacillaceae |
Genus: |
Ammoniphilus Zaitsev et al. 1998 |
Type species | |
Ammoniphilus oxalaticus |
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Species | |
Ammoniphilus is a Gram-variable, strictly aerobic, rod-shaped, haloalkalitolerant spore-forming, obligately oxalotrophic and motile bacterial genus from the family of Paenibacillaceae with peritrichous flagella. In the cell wall of Ammoniphilus is meso-diaminopimelic acid.