''Flavobacterium ceti'' 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 ...

bacterium from the genus of ''

Flavobacterium ''Flavobacterium'' is a genus of Gram-negative, nonmotile and motile, rod-shaped bacteria that consists of 130 recognized species. Flavobacteria are found in soil and fresh water in a variety of environments. Several species are known to cause ...

'' which has been isolated from the lung and liver of the whale

Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier's beaked whale, goose-beaked whale, or ziphius (''Ziphius cavirostris'') is the most widely distributed of all beaked whales in the family Beaked whale, Ziphiidae. It is smaller than most baleen whales—and indeed the larger Toothed whal ...

References

External links

Type strain of ''Flavobacterium ceti'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
ceti Bacteria described in 2007 {{Flavobacteria-stub