Rank Species | Phylum Lentisphaerae | |
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Class Lentisphaeria Cho et al. 2012 Order Lentisphaerales Cho et al. 2004 Family Lentisphaeraceae Cho and Hedlund 2012 Genus Lentisphaera Cho et al. 2004 Similar Caldisericum, Sphaerobacter, Gemmata obscuriglobus, Poribacteria, Herpetosiphon | ||
Lentisphera araneosa is a marine bacteria strain in the bacterial phylum Lentisphaerae. They are able to produce viscous transparent expolymers and grow attached to each other by the polymer in a three-dimensional configuration. They are part of the natural surface bacterial population in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. They are less than 1% of the total bacterial community. This species is gram negative, non-motile, non-pigmented, aerobic, chemoheterotropic, and facultatively oligotrophic sphere-shaped. Its genome has been sequenced.
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