''Ancylomarina subtilis'' is a

Gram-negative Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wa ...

facultatively anaerobic A facultative anaerobic organism is an organism that makes ATP by aerobic respiration if oxygen is present, but is capable of switching to fermentation if oxygen is absent. Some examples of facultatively anaerobic bacteria are ''Staphylococcus' ...

, moderately

halophilic The halophiles, named after the Greek word for "salt-loving", are extremophiles that thrive in high salt concentrations. While most halophiles are classified into the domain Archaea, there are also bacterial halophiles and some eukaryotic species, ...

and non-motile bacterium from the genus of ''

Ancylomarina ''Ancylomarina'' is a genus of bacteria from the family Marinifilaceae ''Marinifilaceae'' is a family Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or ot ...

'', which has been isolated from sediments from the coast of

Weihai Weihai (), formerly called Weihaiwei (), is a prefecture-level city and major seaport in easternmost Shandong province. It borders Yantai to the west and the Yellow Sea to the east, and is the closest Chinese city to South Korea. Weihai's popul ...

in China.

References

External links

Type strain of ''Ancylomarina subtilis'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Bacteria described in 2016 Bacteroidia {{Bacteroidetes-stub