{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}} {{italic title}} {{Automatic_taxobox | taxon = Enhydrobacter | authority = Staley et al. 1987<ref name="Enhydrobacter">[https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/enhydrobacter LPSN bacterionet]</ref> | type_species = ''Enhydrobacter aerosaccus''<ref name="Enhydrobacter"/> | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''Enhydrobacter aerosaccus'' }}
'''''Enhydrobacter''''' is a genus of bacteria which belongs to the class Alphaproteobacteria.<ref>[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Info&id=212791&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock Taxonomy Browser]</ref> So far, only one species is known (''Enhydrobacter aerosaccus'').<ref>{{cite book | author = John G Holt | title = Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology | edition = 9 | publisher = Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | date = 1 October 1993 | isbn = 0683006037}}</ref> ''Enhydrobacter'' has been discussed to be reclassified to the family Rhodospirillaceae and the class Alphaproteobacteria.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Kawamura | first1 = Y. | last2 = Fujiwara | first2 = N. | last3 = Naka | first3 = T. | last4 = Mitani | first4 = A. | last5 = Kubota | first5 = H. | last6 = Tomida | first6 = J. | last7 = Morita | first7 = Y. | last8 = Hitomi | first8 = J. | doi = 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2011.00401.x | title = Genus Enhydrobacter Staley et al. 1987 should be recognized as a member of the family Rhodospirillaceae within the class Alphaproteobacteria | journal = Microbiology and Immunology | volume = 56 | issue = 1 | pages = 21–26 | year = 2012 | pmid = 22145860 | pmc = | s2cid = 26738769 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Because of its oxidase positive it can not be placed in the family ''Enterobacteriaceae'' as it is not a parasite of birds or mammals.<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.microbiologyresearch.org/docserver/fulltext/ijsem/37/3/ijs-37-3-289.pdf?expires=1541714438&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=DB14D75FCA441E62BC732088F538E899|title=Enhydrobacter aerasaccus gen. nov. , sp. nov. a Gas-Vacuolated, Facultatively Anaerobic, Heterotrophic Rod|last=Staley|first=James|date=July 1987|journal=International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology|volume=37|issue=3|pages=289–291|doi=10.1099/00207713-37-3-289|access-date=8 November 2018}}</ref>
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