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 | |
Rhodococcus phenolicus Rehfuss and Urban, 2006 |
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.