Stutzerimonas chloritidismutans is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped, facultatively anaerobic bacterium in the family Pseudomonadaceae. It performs dissimilatory chlorate reduction but does not carry out denitrification.
The type strain, AW-1, was isolated from biomass in an anaerobic chlorate-reducing bioreactor.
Taxonomy The species was originally classified as Pseudomonas chloritidismutans. It was transferred to the genus Stutzerimonas when the Pseudomonas stutzeri group was separated from Pseudomonas.
Genome-based analysis supported the distinction between S. chloritidismutans and S. stutzeri. The same analysis found that Stutzerimonas kunmingensis belongs to the same genomic species and treated it as a later heterotypic synonym of S. chloritidismutans.
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