Rhodococcus rhodochrous (Zopf 1891) Tsukamura 1974 emend. Rainey et al. 1995
IEGM 639
<- I.B. Ivshina, I-102. Isolated from: snow, oilfield, Perm region, Russia. Properties: uses propane, n-butane, liquid n-alkanes (C11-C16) and aliphatic alcohols (ethanol, n-propanol, n-butanol) as sole carbon source; transforms thioanisole (257). (Medium 5 or 8, 15, 28oC).