Parvibaculum hydrocarboniclasticum

Parvibaculum hydrocarboniclasticum is an aerobic bacterium species from the genus Parvibaculum which has been isolated from hydrothermal fluids from the East Pacific Rise in the Pacific Ocean.^[3][4][1][5] Parvibaculum hydrocarboniclasticum can use n-alkanes like octane, dodecane and hexadecane as a sole source for carbon and energy.^[5][3]

Parvibaculum hydrocarboniclasticum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Hyphomicrobiales
Family:	Parvibaculaceae
Genus:	Parvibaculum
Species:	P. hydrocarboniclasticum
Binomial name
Parvibaculum hydrocarboniclasticum Rosario-Passapera et al. 2012[1]
Type strain[2]
DSM 23209, EPR92, JCM 16666