''Aquimarina pacifica'' 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 ...

, strictly

aerobic Aerobic means "requiring air," in which "air" usually means oxygen. Aerobic may also refer to * Aerobic exercise, prolonged exercise of moderate intensity * Aerobics, a form of aerobic exercise * Aerobic respiration, the aerobic process of cellu ...

rod-shaped Bacterial cellular morphologies are the shapes that are characteristic of various types of bacteria and often key to their identification. Their direct examination under a light microscope enables the classification of these bacteria (and archae ...

bacterium from the genus of

Aquimarina ''Aquimarina'' is a strictly aerobic and halophilic bacterial genus from the family of Flavobacteriaceae. ''Aquimarina'' can cause diseases in marine eukaryotes The eukaryotes ( ) constitute the domain of Eukaryota or Eukarya, organisms w ...

which has been isolated from seawater from the

South Pacific Gyre The Southern Pacific Gyre is part of the Earth's system of rotating ocean currents, bounded by the Equator to the north, Australia to the west, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to the south, and South America to the east. The center of the South ...

from the

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five Borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is ...

References

External links

Type strain of ''Aquimarina pacifica'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Flavobacteria Bacteria described in 2014 {{Flavobacteria-stub