{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Oil spill in San Francisco bay.jpg | image_caption = An oil spill being treated with ''Alcanivorax'' | taxon = Alcanivorax | authority = Yakimov ''et al.'' 1998 | type_species = ''Alcanivorax borkumensis'' | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text. | synonyms = * ''Fundibacter'' <small>Bruns and Berthe-Corti 1999</small> }}
'''''Alcanivorax''''' is a genus of alkane-degrading marine bacteria.
==Species== ''Alcanivorax'' comprises the following species:<ref name="LPSN">{{cite web | vauthors = Euzéby JP, Parte AC | url = https://www.bacterio.net/genus/alcanivorax | title = ''Alcanivorax'' | access-date = March 19, 2022 | publisher = List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)}}</ref> * ''Alcanivorax balearicus'' <small>Rivas et al. 2007</small> * ''Alcanivorax borkumensis'' <small>Yakimov et al. 1998</small> * ''Alcanivorax dieselolei'' <small>Liu and Shao 2005</small> * ''Alcanivorax gelatiniphagus'' <small>Kwon et al. 2015</small> * ''Alcanivorax hongdengensis'' <small>Wu et al. 2009</small> * ''Alcanivorax indicus'' <small>Song et al. 2018</small> * ''Alcanivorax jadensis'' <small>(Bruns and Berthe-Corti 1999) Fernández-Martínez et al. 2003</small> * ''Alcanivorax limicola'' <small> Zhu et al. 2021</small> * ''Alcanivorax marinus'' <small>Lai et al. 2013</small> * ''Alcanivorax mobilis'' <small>Yang et al. 2018</small> * ''Alcanivorax nanhaiticus'' <small>Lai et al. 2016</small> * ''Alcanivorax pacificus'' <small>Lai et al. 2011</small> * ''Alcanivorax profundi'' <small>Liu et al. 2019</small> * ''Alcanivorax profundimaris'' <small>Dong et al. 2021</small> * ''Alcanivorax sediminis'' <small>Liao et al. 2020</small> * ''Alcanivorax venustensis'' <small>Fernández-Martínez et al. 2003</small> * ''Alcanivorax xenomutans'' <small>Rahul et al. 2014</small>
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Category:Oceanospirillales Category:Biodegradation Category:Bacteria genera