Blastobacter

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Blastobacter

| domain = Bacteria

| phylum = Pseudomonadota

| classis = Alphaproteobacteria

| ordo = Hyphomicrobiales

| familia = Nitrobacteraceae

| genus = Blastobacter

| genus_authority = Zavarzin 1961{{cite journal | author = Zavarzin GA. | title = Budding bacteria. | journal = Mikrobiologiya | year = 1961 | volume = 30 | pages = 952–975| pmid = 14009937 }}

| type_species = Blastobacter henricii[https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/blastobacter LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de]

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• B. henricii Zavarzin 1961 (Approved Lists 1980)

• "Blastobacter viscosus" Loginova and Trotsenko 1979

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Blastobacter is a genus of bacteria from the family Nitrobacteraceae.[https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/109 UniProt] Most of the species originally ascribed to Blastobacter have been transferred to other genera, with Blastobacter henricii as the only remaining valid species.[https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/blastobacter LPSN entry for Blastobacter] To complicate matters, no type strain is available for Blastobacter henricii, so the entire genus may be dismantled.