Xanthobacter

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Xanthobacter

| domain = Bacteria

| phylum = Pseudomonadota

| classis = Alphaproteobacteria

| ordo = Hyphomicrobiales

| familia = Xanthobacteraceae

| genus = Xanthobacter

| genus_authority = Wiegel et al. 1978[https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/xanthobacter LPSN lpsn.dsmz.de]

| type_species = Xanthobacter autotrophicus

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

• X. agilis Jenni and Aragno 1988
• X. aminoxidans Doronina and Trotsenko 2003
• X. autotrophicus (Baumgarten et al. 1974) Wiegel et al. 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
• X. dioxanivorans Wang et al. 2021
• X. flavus Malik and Claus 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)
• X. oligotrophicus Tikhonova et al. 2021
• "Xanthobacter polyaromaticivorans" Hirano et al. 2004
• X. tagetidis Padden et al. 1997
• X. viscosus Doronina and Trotsenko 2003
• "Xanthobacter xylophilus" Zaichikova et al. 2010

| synonyms =

}}

Xanthobacter is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria from the family Xanthobacteraceae.[https://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/279 UniProt]{{cite book |editor-first=George M. |editor-last=Garrity |title=Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology |date=2005 |publisher=Springer |location=New York |isbn=0-387-24145-0 |edition=2nd |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/bergeysmanualofs00boon}}{{cite book |editor-first=Stanley |editor-last=Falkow |title=Proteobacteria: Alpha and Beta subclasses |date=2006 |publisher=Springer |location=New York |isbn=0-387-25495-1 |edition=3rd}}