Acidiphilium cryptum is a species of heterotrophic bacteria, the type species of its genus.
It is gram-negative, aerobic, mesophilic and rod-shaped.
It does not form endospores and some cells are motile by means of one polar flagellum or two lateral flagella Lhet2 (=ATCC 33463) is the type strain.
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