''Leeuwenhoekiella blandensis'' is a heterotrophic,

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 ...

and aerobic bacterium from the genus of

Leeuwenhoekiella ''Leeuwenhoekiella'' is a strictly aerobic bacterial genus from the family of Flavobacteriaceae The family Flavobacteriaceae is composed of environmental bacteria. Most species are aerobic, while some are microaerobic to anaerobic; for examp ...

which has been isolated from seawater from the

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ...

References

External links

Type strain of ''Leeuwenhoekiella blandensis'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Flavobacteria Bacteria described in 2006 Leeuwenhoekiella {{Flavobacteria-stub