Rhodococcus phenolicus is a bacterium species in the genus Rhodococcus. Phenolicus comes from New Latin noun phenol –olis, phenol; Latin masculine gender suff. –icus, suffix used in adjectives with the sense of belonging to; New Latin masculine gender adjective phenolicus, belonging to phenol. This species is able to degrade phenol as sole carbon source.

• Rehfuss, M.; Urban, J. (2005). “Rhodococcus phenolicus sp. nov., a novel bioprocessor isolated actinomycete with the ability to degrade chlorobenzene, dichlorobenzene and phenol as sole carbon sources”. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 28 (8): 695–701. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2005.05.011. PMID 16261859.

External links

• “Rhodococcus phenolicus”. National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
• Type strain of Rhodococcus phenolicus at BacDive – the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase

Categories: 

• Mycobacteriales
• Bacteria described in 2006
• Actinomycetota stubs