Order Actinomycetales | Suborder Corynebacterineae Phylum Actinobacteria Rank Species | |
Similar Rhodococcus, Actinomycetales, Rhodococcus fascians, Corynebacterineae, Gordonia | ||
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.
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