Thiomonas islandica

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Thiomonas islandica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Beta Proteobacteria
Order: Burkholderiales
Family: Comamonadaceae
Genus: Thiomonas
Species: T. islandica
Binomial name
Thiomonas islandica
Vésteinsdóttir et al. 2011[1]
Type strain
6C, DSM 21436, JCM 16107[2]

Thiomonas islandica is a gram-negative, rod-shaped, motile bacterium from the genus of Thiomonas in the family of Comamonadaceae which has the ability to oxidise sulfur compounds and hydrogen. It was isolated from a hot spring in Graendalur in south-western Iceland.[3]

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