''Bhargavaea beijingensis'' is a
Gram-positive, non-
spore
In biology, a spore is a unit of sexual or asexual reproduction that may be adapted for dispersal and for survival, often for extended periods of time, in unfavourable conditions. Spores form part of the life cycles of many plants, algae, f ...
-forming,
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 non-motile bacterium from the genus of
Bhargavaea
''Bhargavaea'' is a bacteria genus from the family of Planococcaceae
The ''Caryophanaceae'' is a family of Gram-positive bacteria. In 2020, the now defunct family '' Planococcaceae'' was merged into ''Caryophanaceae'' to rectify a nomenclatur ...
which has been isolated from deep-sea sediments from the
Chagos-Laccadive Ridge from the
Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...
.
References
External links
Type strain of ''Bhargavaea cecembensis'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Bacillales
Bacteria described in 2009
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