Sphingobium chlorophenolicum

Sphingobium chlorophenolicum is a species of gram-negative bacteria.^[1] The type strain was first identified from North American soils contaminated with chlorophenols and was formally described in 1995.^[2] It is of interest to researchers because it can mineralise the toxic pesticide pentachlorophenol (PCP).^[3][4][5]

Sphingobium chlorophenolicum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Sphingomonadales
Family:	Sphingomonadaceae
Genus:	Sphingobium
Species:	S. chlorophenolicum
Binomial name
Sphingobium chlorophenolicum (Nohynek et al. 1995) Takeuchi et al. 2001[1]
Type strain[2]
ATCC 33790
Synonyms
Sphingomonas chlorophenolica Nohynek et al. 1995 Arthrobacter sp. ATCC 33790