''Thalassolituus'' is an oil degrading bacterial genus from the family of

Oceanospirillaceae Oceanospirillaceae is a family of Pseudomonadota. Most genera in this family live in environments with high concentrations of salt; they are halotolerant or halophilic The halophiles, named after the Greek word for "salt-loving", are extremophil ...

. ''Thalassolituus'' is a gram negative, rod shaped marine bacteria. S.I. Paul et al. (2021) isolated and characterized ''Thalassolituus'' species (''

Thalassolituus marinus ''Thalassolituus marinus'' is a gram negative, rod shaped, motile, hydrocarbon utilizing marine bacterium. Choi and Cho (2013) isolated ''Thalassolituus marinus'' from a surface seawater sample of the Yellow Sea. S.I. Paul et al. (2021) isolated ...

'') from marine sponge (''Cliona carteri'') of the

Saint Martin's Island Saint Martin Island ( bn, সেন্টমার্টিন দ্বীপ) is a small island (area only 3 km2) in the northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal, about 9 km south of the tip of the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf peninsula, and fo ...

of the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh.

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