''Ferrimonas balearica'' is a

Gram-negative Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wall ...

, non-

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-forming, facultatively anaerobic bacterium from the genus of ''

Ferrimonas ''Ferrimonas'' is a genus of bacteria from the family of Ferrimonadaceae Ferrimonadaceae is a family in the order of Alteromonadales The Alteromonadales are an order of Pseudomonadota. Although they have been treated as a single family, th ...

'' which has been isolated from sediments from the harbor of

Palma de Mallorca Palma (; ; also known as ''Palma de Mallorca'', officially between 1983–88, 2006–08, and 2012–16) is the capital and largest city of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is situate ...

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References

Bacteria described in 1996 Alteromonadales {{Alteromonadales-stub