''Lutibacter holmesii'' 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 ...

, strictly

aerobic Aerobic means "requiring air," in which "air" usually means oxygen. Aerobic may also refer to * Aerobic exercise, prolonged exercise of moderate intensity * Aerobics, a form of aerobic exercise * Aerobic respiration, the aerobic process of cellu ...

rod-shaped Bacterial cellular morphologies are the shapes that are characteristic of various types of bacteria and often key to their identification. Their direct examination under a light microscope enables the classification of these bacteria (and archae ...

and non-motile bacterium from the genus of '' Lutibacter'' which has been isolated from a sea urchin (''

Strongylocentrotus intermedius ''Strongylocentrotus intermedius'' is a species of sea urchin described by Alexander Agassiz in 1864. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q4417871 Echinoderms described in 1864 Taxa named by Alexander Agassiz intermedius The vastus intermedius () ...

'') from the Troitsa Bay in the

Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it ...

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Flavobacteria Bacteria described in 2015 {{Flavobacteria-stub