''Thalassococcus lentus'' is a

Gram-negative Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that, unlike gram-positive bacteria, do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. Their defining characteristic is that their cell envelope consists ...

and non-motile bacterium from the genus of '' Thalassococcus'' which has been isolated from seawater from a

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from the South Sea in

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References

External links

Type strain of ''Thalassococcus lentus'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Rhodobacteraceae Bacteria described in 2013 {{Rhodobacterales-stub