''Arenibacter nanhaiticus'' 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 wall ...

rod-shaped A bacillus (), also called a bacilliform bacterium or often just a rod (when the context makes the sense clear), is a rod-shaped bacterium or archaeon. Bacilli are found in many different taxonomic groups of bacteria. However, the name ''Bacillu ...

and aerobic bacterium from the genus ''

Arenibacter ''Arenibacter'' is a rod-shaped and strictly aerobic genus from the family of Flavobacteriaceae The family Flavobacteriaceae is composed of environmental bacteria. Most species are aerobic, while some are microaerobic to anaerobic; for examp ...

'' which has been isolated from sandy sediments from the

South China Sea The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded in the north by the shores of South China (hence the name), in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan and northwestern Phil ...

References

External links

Type strain of ''Arenibacter nanhaiticus'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Flavobacteria Bacteria described in 2010 {{Flavobacteria-stub