''Parapontixanthobacter aurantiacus'' 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 ...

and aerobic bacterium from the genus of '' Parapontixanthobacter'' which has been isolated from deep-sea sediments from the

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

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Sphingomonadales Bacteria described in 2016 {{Sphingomonadales-stub