Zavarzinia is a genus of Gram-negative soil bacteria in the order Rhodospirillales. It is the only genus in the family Zavarziniaceae. It is named after the Russian microbiologist Georgi Alexandrovich Zavarzin. Zavarzinia is motile by using a polar flagellum. The cells are curved rod-shaped.Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. pp. 354–361. .
Species: Zavarzinia aquatilis Lee et al. 2019 Zavarzinia compransoris (ex Nozhevnikova and Zavarzin 1974) Meyer et al. 1994 Zavarzinia marina Hu et al. 2022
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