“…Since the existence of aerobic denitrification was confirmed in Paracoccus denitrificans (formerly Thiosphaera pantotropha ) (Robertson and Kuenen, 1984), numerous aerobic denitrifying bacteria belonging to species of Alcaligenes (Vanniel et al, 1992; Matsuzaka et al, 2003), Diaphorobacter (Khardenavis et al, 2007), Pseudomonas (Wan et al, 2011; Zhang et al, 2011; Qiu et al, 2012; Zheng et al, 2014; Zhou et al, 2014; Huang et al, 2015; Zhao et al, 2018), Acinetobacter (Ren et al, 2014; Liu et al, 2015; Yang et al, 2016), Bacillus (Zhang et al, 2010; Song et al, 2011; Barman et al, 2017), Marinobacter (Zheng et al, 2012), and Paracoccus (Shi et al, 2013) have been isolated. Nevertheless, among these reports about aerobic denitrifiers, only a few are focused on utilizing nitrite as the only nitrogen source and removing nitrite of low concentrations, especially in aquaculture water, thus it is very urgent to explore more aerobic denitrifying bacteria that utilize and remove low-concentration nitrite from water with high efficiency.…”