Sphingobacterium arenae

{{Short description|Species of bacterium}}

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| name = Sphingobacterium arenae

| domain = Bacteria

| phylum = Bacteroidota

| classis = Sphingobacteriia

| ordo = Sphingobacteriales

| familia = Sphingobacteriaceae

| genus = Sphingobacterium

| species = S. arenae

| binomial = Sphingobacterium arenae

| binomial_authority = Jiang et al. 2014{{cite journal|last1=Parte|first1=A.C.|title=Sphingobacterium|journal=LPSN|url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/sphingobacterium}}

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Sphingobacterium arenae is a Gram-negative, non-spore-forming, short rod-shaped and non-motile bacterium from the genus of Sphingobacterium which has been isolated from sandy soil in Xinjiang in China.{{cite journal|last1=Jiang|first1=S.|last2=Chen|first2=M.|last3=Su|first3=S.|last4=Yang|first4=M.|last5=Li|first5=A.|last6=Zhang|first6=C.|last7=Lin|first7=M.|last8=Zhang|first8=W.|last9=Luo|first9=X.|title=Sphingobacterium arenae sp. nov., isolated from sandy soil|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|date=19 September 2013|volume=64|issue=Pt 1|pages=248–253|doi=10.1099/ijs.0.051706-0|pmid=24052628}}