Alcanivorax

Alcanivorax
	An oil spill being treated with Alcanivorax
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
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;

Alcanivorax is a genus of alkane-degrading marine bacteria.

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