Novosphingobium lentum

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

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| genus = Novosphingobium

| species = lentum

| authority = Tiirola et al. 2005{{cite journal|last1=Parte|first1=A.C.|title=Novosphingobium|journal=LPSN|url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/novosphingobium}}

| type_strain = CCUG 45847, CIP 108698, DSM 13663, NBRC 107847, MT1{{cite journal|title=Novosphingobium lentum|website=www.uniprot.org|url=https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/145287}}

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Novosphingobium lentum is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming, psychrotolerant and non-motile bacterium from the genus Novosphingobium which has been isolated from chlorophenol-contaminated groundwater in Finland.{{cite journal|title=Details: DSM-13663|website=www.dsmz.de|url=https://www.dsmz.de/catalogues/details/culture/DSM-13663.html}}{{cite journal|last1=Tiirola|first1=M. A.|title=Novosphingobium lentum sp. nov., a psychrotolerant bacterium from a polychlorophenol bioremediation process|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|date=1 March 2005|volume=55|issue=2|pages=583–588|doi=10.1099/ijs.0.63386-0|pmid=15774628}} Novosphingobium lentum has the ability to degrade chlorophenol.