''Fontimonas'' 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 ...
genus of bacteria from the family of
Sinobacteraceae with one known species (''
Fontimonas thermophila'').
[ ''Fontimonas thermophila'' has been isolated from a ]hot spring
A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth. The groundwater is heated either by shallow bodies of magma (molten rock) or by c ...
from the Hot Springs National Park in the United States
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References
Gammaproteobacteria
Bacteria genera
Monotypic bacteria genera
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