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Rhodococcus phenolicus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Actinomycetota
Class:	Actinomycetia
Order:	Mycobacteriales
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 Neo-Latin noun phenol -olis, phenol; Latin masculine gender suff. -icus, suffix used in adjectives with the sense of belonging to; Neo-Latin masculine gender adjective phenolicus, belonging to phenol. This species is able to degrade phenol as sole carbon source.

References

1. Rehfuss, M.; Urban, J. (2005). "Rhodococcus phenolicus sp. nov., a novel bioprocessor isolated actinomycete with the ability to degrade chlorobenzene, dichlorobenzene and phenol as sole carbon sources". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 28 (8): 695–701. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2005.05.011. PMID 16261859.

External links

• "Rhodococcus phenolicus". National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
• Type strain of Rhodococcus phenolicus at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

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