Enhydrobacter

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Enhydrobacter

| domain = Bacteria

| phylum = Pseudomonadota

| classis = Gammaproteobacteria

| ordo = Pseudomonadales

| familia = Moraxellaceae

| genus = Enhydrobacter

| genus_authority = Staley et al. 1987[https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/enhydrobacter LPSN bacterionet]

| type_species = Enhydrobacter aerosaccus

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

Enhydrobacter aerosaccus

}}

Enhydrobacter is a genus of bacteria which belongs to the class Alphaproteobacteria.[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=212791&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock Taxonomy Browser] So far, only one species is known (Enhydrobacter aerosaccus).{{cite book | author = John G Holt | title = Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology | edition = 9 | publisher = Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | date = 1 October 1993 | isbn = 0683006037}} Enhydrobacter has been discussed to be reclassified to the family Rhodospirillaceae and the class Alphaproteobacteria.{{Cite journal

| last1 = Kawamura | first1 = Y.

| last2 = Fujiwara | first2 = N.

| last3 = Naka | first3 = T.

| last4 = Mitani | first4 = A.

| last5 = Kubota | first5 = H.

| last6 = Tomida | first6 = J.

| last7 = Morita | first7 = Y.

| last8 = Hitomi | first8 = J.

| doi = 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2011.00401.x

| title = Genus Enhydrobacter Staley et al. 1987 should be recognized as a member of the family Rhodospirillaceae within the class Alphaproteobacteria

| journal = Microbiology and Immunology

| volume = 56

| issue = 1

| pages = 21–26

| year = 2012

| pmid = 22145860

| pmc =

| s2cid = 26738769

| doi-access = free

}} Because of its oxidase positive it can not be placed in the family Enterobacteriaceae as it is not a parasite of birds or mammals.{{Cite journal|url=http://www.microbiologyresearch.org/docserver/fulltext/ijsem/37/3/ijs-37-3-289.pdf?expires=1541714438&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=DB14D75FCA441E62BC732088F538E899|title=Enhydrobacter aerasaccus gen. nov. , sp. nov. a Gas-Vacuolated, Facultatively Anaerobic, Heterotrophic Rod|last=Staley|first=James|date=July 1987|journal=International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology|volume=37|issue=3|pages=289–291|doi=10.1099/00207713-37-3-289|access-date=8 November 2018}}