''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 and characterized ''Thalassolituus marinus'' 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.
The type strain of ''Thalassolituus marinus'' is IMCC1826T (=KCTC 23084T = NBRC 107590T).
References
Oceanospirillales
Gram-negative bacteria
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