Alcanivorax

Alcanivorax is a genus of alkane-degrading marine bacteria.

Alcanivorax
An oil spill being treated with Alcanivorax
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Oceanospirillales
Family:	Alcanivoracaceae
Genus:	Alcanivorax Yakimov et al. 1998
Type species
Alcanivorax borkumensis
Species
See text.
Synonyms
Fundibacter Bruns and Berthe-Corti 1999

Species

Alcanivorax comprises the following species:^[1]

• Alcanivorax balearicus Rivas et al. 2007
• Alcanivorax borkumensis Yakimov et al. 1998
• Alcanivorax dieselolei Liu and Shao 2005
• Alcanivorax gelatiniphagus Kwon et al. 2015
• Alcanivorax hongdengensis Wu et al. 2009
• Alcanivorax indicus Song et al. 2018
• Alcanivorax jadensis (Bruns and Berthe-Corti 1999) Fernández-Martínez et al. 2003
• Alcanivorax limicola Zhu et al. 2021
• Alcanivorax marinus Lai et al. 2013
• Alcanivorax mobilis Yang et al. 2018
• Alcanivorax nanhaiticus Lai et al. 2016
• Alcanivorax pacificus Lai et al. 2011
• Alcanivorax profundi Liu et al. 2019
• Alcanivorax profundimaris Dong et al. 2021
• Alcanivorax sediminis Liao et al. 2020
• Alcanivorax venustensis Fernández-Martínez et al. 2003
• Alcanivorax xenomutans Rahul et al. 2014