Neptunomonas naphthovorans is a species of bacteria.Hedlund, Brian P., et al. "Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degradation by a new marine bacterium, Neptunomonas naphthovorans gen. nov., sp. nov."Applied and Environmental Microbiology 65.1 (1999): 251-259. It is notable for utilising naphthalene as a sole carbon and energy source. Its type strain is NAG-2N-126.
References
Further reading Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey's manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 5. Springer, 2012. Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 6: Proteobacteria: Gamma Subclass. Vol. 6. Springer, 2006.
External links LPSN WORMS entry Type strain of Neptunomonas naphthovorans at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase