'' Lacimicrobium'' 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 ...

, facultatively aerobic and motile bacteria genus from the family of

Alteromonadaceae The Alteromonadaceae are a family of Pseudomonadota.George M. Garrity: ''Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology''. 2. Auflage. Springer, New York, 2005, Volume 2: ''The Proteobacteria, Part B: The Gammaproteobacteria'' They are now one of se ...

with one known species ('' Lacimicrobium alkaliphilum''). ''Lacimicrobium alkaliphilum'' has been isolated from the Lake Xiaochaidan in the

Qaidam Basin The Qaidam, Tsaidam, or Chaidamu Basin is a hyperarid basin that occupies a large part of Haixi Prefecture in Qinghai Province, China. The basin covers an area of approximately , one-fourth of which is covered by saline lakes and playas. Aro ...

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...

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Alteromonadales Monotypic bacteria genera Bacteria genera {{Alteromonadales-stub