Chryseobacterium greenlandensis

Chryseobacterium greenlandensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacteroidetes
Class: Flavobacteria
Order: Flavobacteriales
Family: Flavobacteriaceae
Genus: Chryseobacterium
Species: C. greenlandensis
Binomial name
Chryseobacterium greenlandensis

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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