Kingdom : Bacteria
Phylum : Proteobacteria
Class : Betaproteobacteria
Order : Burkholderiales
Family : Comamonadaceae
Genus : Delftia ( Gram-negative non-spore-forming, aerobe )
Delftia Wen et al. 1999, gen. nov.
Type species: Delftia acidovorans (den Dooren de Jong 1926) Wen et al. 1999.
Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Delftia, referring to the city of Delft, the site of isolation of the type species, and in recognition of the role of Delft research groups in the development of bacteriology.
Valid publication: WEN (A.), FEGAN (M.), HAYWARD (C.), CHAKRABORTY (S.) and SLY (L.I.): Phylogenetic relationships among members of the Comamonadaceae, and description of Delftia acidovorans (den Dooren de Jong 1926 and Tamaoka et al. 1987) gen. nov., comb. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1999, 49, 567-576.
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