ancylobacter ancylobacter ancylobacter is a genus of aerobic bacteria from the family of xanthobacteraceae. ancylobacter scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: hyphomicrobiales family: xanthobacteraceae genus: ancylobacterraj 1983 type species ancylobacter aquaticus species "ancylobacter abiegnus" zaichikova et al. 2010 ancylobacter aquaticus (ørskov 1928) raj 1983 ancylobacter defluvii poroshina et al. 2014 ancylobacter dichloromethanicus firsova et al. 2010 ancylobacter lacus chemodurova et al. 2020 "ancylobacter natronum" doronina et al. 2001 ancylobacter oerskovii lang et al. 2008 ancylobacter plantiphilus chemodurova et al. 2020 ancylobacter polymorphus xin et al. 2006 ancylobacter pratisalsi suarez et al. 2017 ancylobacter rudongensis xin et al. 2004 ancylobacter sonchi agafonova et al. 2017 ancylobacter vacuolatus xin et al. 2006 synonyms renobacter nikitin 1971 microcyclus ørskov 1928 (approved lists 1980) phylogeny the currently accepted taxonomy is based on the list of prokaryotic names with standing in nomenclature (lpsn). the phylogeny is based on whole-genome analysis. ancylobacter ancylobacter sonchi ancylobacter defluvii ancylobacter pratisalsi ancylobacter vacuolatus ancylobacter aquaticus ancylobacter polymorphus ancylobacter dichloromethanicus ancylobacter rudongensis ancylobacter oerskovii outgroups methylorhabdus angulomicrobium starkeya