''Tessaracoccus arenae'' is a

Gram-positive In bacteriology, gram-positive bacteria are bacteria that give a positive result in the Gram stain test, which is traditionally used to quickly classify bacteria into two broad categories according to their type of cell wall. Gram-positive bac ...

facultatively anaerobic A facultative anaerobic organism is an organism that makes ATP by aerobic respiration if oxygen is present, but is capable of switching to fermentation if oxygen is absent. Some examples of facultatively anaerobic bacteria are ''Staphylococcus' ...

, non-spore-forming and non-motile bacterium from the genus ''

Tessaracoccus ''Tessaracoccus'' is a Gram-positive, non-spore-forming, facultatively anaerobic and non-motile bacterial genus from the family Propionibacteriaceae The Propionibacteriaceae are a family of Gram-positive bacteria In bacteriology, gram-posi ...

'' which has been isolated from sea sand.

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Propionibacteriales Bacteria described in 2017 {{Propionibacterineae-stub