''Sunxiuqinia rutila'' is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic,

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 ''Bacillu ...

and non-motile bacterium from the genus of ''

Sunxiuqinia ''Sunxiuqinia'' is a genus of bacteria from the family of Prolixibacteraceae ''Prolixibacteraceae'' is a family of 11 bacterial genera in the order of ''Bacteroidales Bacteroidales is an order of bacteria. Notably it includes the genera '' ...

'' which has been isolated from sediments from the Nagasuka Fishery Harbor in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

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Bacteroidia Bacteria described in 2014 {{Bacteroidetes-stub