Afifella marina

Afifella marina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Hyphomicrobiales
Family:	Afifellaceae
Genus:	Afifella
Species:	A. marina
Binomial name
	Afifella marina; (Imhoff 1984) Urdiain et al. 2009
Type strain
	ATCC 35675, BCRC 16414, BN126, CCRC 16414, CIP 104405, DSM 2698, Imhoff BN 126, NBRC 100434, NCIMB 2201
Synonyms
	Rhodobium marinum (Imhoff 1984) Hiraishi et al. 1995; Rhodopseudomonas marina Imhoff 1984;

Afifella marina is a phototrophic bacterial species of the genus Afifella.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

Urdiain, M; López-López, A; Gonzalo, C; Busse, HJ; Langer, S; Kämpfer, P; Rosselló-Móra, R (October 2008). "Reclassification of Rhodobium marinum and Rhodobium pfennigii as Afifella marina gen. nov. comb. nov. and Afifella pfennigii comb. nov., a new genus of photoheterotrophic Alphaproteobacteria and emended descriptions of Rhodobium, Rhodobium orientis and Rhodobium gokarnense". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 31 (5): 339–51. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2008.07.002. PMID 18774253.
soon, Tan Kar; Al-Azad, Sujjat; Ransangan, Julian (28 August 2014). "Isolation and Characterization of Purple Non-Sulfur Bacteria, Afifella marina, Producing Large Amount of Carotenoids from Mangrove Microhabitats". Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. 24 (8): 1034–1043. doi:10.4014/jmb.1308.08072. PMID 24759424.