Thiorhodococcus modestalkaliphilus

{{short description|Genus of bacteria}}

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| domain = Bacteria

| phylum = Pseudomonadota

| classis = Gammaproteobacteria

| ordo = Chromatiales

| familia = Chromatiaceae

| genus = Thiorhodococcus

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| species = T. modestalkaliphilus

| binomial = Thiorhodococcus modestalkaliphilus

| binomial_authority = Sucharita et al. 2010{{cite journal |title=Thiorhodococcus |journal=LPSN |url=https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/thiorhodococcus}}

| type_strain = KCTC 5710, NBRC 104958, strain JA395{{cite journal |title=Thiorhodococcus modestalkaliphilus |website=www.uniprot.org |url=https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/527199}}

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Thiorhodococcus modestalkaliphilus is a Gram-negative, phototrophic and motile bacterium from the genus of Thiorhodococcus which has been isolated from sediments from the Chilika Lagoon in India.{{cite journal |last1=Parker |first1=Charles Thomas |last2=Garrity |first2=George M |editor1-first=Charles Thomas |editor1-last=Parker |editor2-first=George M |editor2-last=Garrity |title=Taxonomic Abstract for the species. |date=1 August 2008 |doi=10.1601/tx.20069 |publisher=NamesforLife, LLC |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Sucharita |first1=K |last2=Sasikala |first2=C |last3=Ramana |first3=CV |title=Thiorhodococcus modestalkaliphilus sp. nov. a phototrophic gammaproteobacterium from Chilika salt water lagoon, India. |journal=The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology |date=April 2010 |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=93–9 |pmid=20513956 |doi=10.2323/jgam.56.93|doi-access=free }}