''Leeuwenhoekiella palythoae'' is a

heterotrophic A heterotroph (; ) is an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter. In the food chain, heterotrophs are primary, secondary and tertiary consumers, but ...

and strictly 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 ...

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Type strain of ''Leeuwenhoekiella palythoae'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Flavobacteria Bacteria described in 2009 Leeuwenhoekiella {{Flavobacteria-stub