Chitinispirillum

Chitinispirillum is a genus of bacteria with one known species, Chitinispirillum alkaliphilum.^[1][2][3][4] It is the only member of the family Chitinispirillaceae, order Chitinivibrionales, and class Chitinivibrionia. Chitinispirillum alkaliphilum has been isolated from hypersaline lake sediments from the Wadi el Natrun valley in Egypt.^[5]

Chitinispirillum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Fibrobacterota
Class:	Chitinispirillia Sorokin et al. 2016
Order:	Chitinispirillales Sorokin et al. 2016
Family:	Chitinispirillaceae Sorokin et al. 2016
Genus:	Chitinispirillum Sorokin et al. 2016
Species:	C. alkaliphilum
Binomial name
Chitinispirillum alkaliphilum Sorokin et al. 2016