Humibacter

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}

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| taxon = Humibacter

| authority = Vaz-Moreira et al. 2008{{cite journal |last1=Vaz-Moreira |first1=I |last2=Nobre |first2=MF |last3=Ferreira |first3=AC |last4=Schumann |first4=P |last5=Nunes |first5=OC |last6=Manaia |first6=CM |title=Humibacter albus gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from sewage sludge compost. |journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology |date=April 2008 |volume=58 |issue=Pt 4 |pages=1014–8 |doi=10.1099/ijs.0.65266-0 |pmid=18398211|doi-access=free }}

| type_species = Humibacter albus

| type_species_authority = Vaz-Moreira et al. 2008

| subdivision_ranks = Species{{cite journal |last1=Parte |first1=A.C. |title=Humibacter |website=LPSN |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/humibacter}}

| subdivision =

• H. albus Vaz-Moreira et al. 2008
• H. antri Lee 2013
• H. aquilariae Lin et al. 2017
• H. ginsengisoli Kim et al. 2015
• {{nowrap|H. ginsengiterrae Kim et al. 2015}}
• H. soli Park et al. 2016

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Humibacter is a Gram-positive, mesophilic, strictly aerobic, chemoorganotrophic and motile genus of bacteria from the family of Microbacteriaceae.{{cite book |last1=Falkiewicz-Dulik |first1=Michalina |last2=Janda |first2=Katarzyna |last3=Wypych |first3=George |title=Handbook of Material Biodegradation, Biodeterioration, and Biostablization |date=2015 |publisher=Elsevier |isbn=9781927885024 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Nunes |first1=Olga C. |last2=Manaia |first2=Célia M. |title=Humibacter |journal=Bergey's Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria |date=14 September 2015 |pages=1–3 |doi=10.1002/9781118960608.gbm00100 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Ltd |language=en|isbn=9781118960608 }} Humibacter occur in sewage sludge.