| Rhodococcus phenolicus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Actinobacteria |
| Order: | Actinomycetales |
| Suborder: | Corynebacterineae |
| Family: | Nocardiaceae |
| Genus: | Rhodococcus |
| Species: | R. phenolicus |
| Binomial name | |
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Rhodococcus phenolicus Rehfuss and Urban, 2006 |
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Rhodococcus phenolicus is a bacterium species in the genus Rhodococcus. Phenolicus comes from New Latin noun phenol -olis, phenol; Latin masculine gender suff. -icus, suffix used in adjectives with the sense of belonging to; New Latin masculine gender adjective phenolicus, belonging to phenol.) This species is able to degrade phenol as sole carbon source.