''Aurantivirga'' 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 ...

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 cell ...

proteorhodopsin Proteorhodopsin (also known as pRhodopsin) is a family of transmembrane proteins that use retinal as a chromophore for light-mediated functionality, in this case, a proton pump. pRhodopsin is found in marine planktonic bacteria, archaea and eu ...

-containing and

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 '' Bacil ...

genus of bacteria from the family of

Flavobacteriaceae The family Flavobacteriaceae is composed of environmental bacteria. Most species are aerobic, while some are microaerobic to anaerobic; for example '' Capnocytophaga'' and ''Coenonia''. Genera The family ''Flavobacteriaceae'' comprises the f ...

with one known species (''

Aurantivirga profunda ''Aurantivirga'' is a Gram-negative, Aerobic organism, aerobic, proteorhodopsin-containing and rod-shaped genus of bacteria from the family of Flavobacteriaceae with one known species (''Aurantivirga profunda''). ''Aurantivirga profunda'' has be ...

''). ''Aurantivirga profunda'' has been isolated from deep seawater from the

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

References

Flavobacteria Bacteria genera Monotypic bacteria genera Taxa described in 2015 {{Bacteroidetes-stub