Chryseobacterium greenlandensis
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| Chryseobacterium greenlandensis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacteroidetes |
| Class: | Flavobacteria |
| Order: | Flavobacteriales |
| Family: | Flavobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Chryseobacterium |
| Species: | C. greenlandensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Chryseobacterium greenlandensis |
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Chryseobacterium greenlandensis is an Ultramicrobacteria species of bacteria that is able to live for long periods of time in habitats low-temperature, high-pressure, reduced-oxygen and nutrient-poor habitats. It is known to have survived for more than 120,000 years in an ice block in Greenland, at a depth of 3,000 metres (1.9 mi) .[1]
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- ^ "A Survivor in Greenland: A Novel Bacterial Species is Found Trapped in 120,000-Year-Old Ice", physorg.com, 3 June 2008
