Fucophilus

Fucophilus is a fucoidan-utilizing genus of bacteria from the phylum Verrucomicrobiota with one known species (Fucophilus fucoidanolyticus).^[1][2][3] Fucophilus fucoidanolyticus has been isolated from the gut contend of a sea cucumber (Stichopus japonicus).^[4]

Fucophilus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Verrucomicrobiota
Class:	incertae sedis
Order:	incertae sedis
Family:	incertae sedis
Genus:	"Fucophilus" Sakai et al. 2003[1]
Type species
"Fucophilus fucoidanolyticus" Sakai et al. 2001
Species
"F. fucoidanolyticus"

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera