Thalassolituus
| Thalassolituus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Oceanospirillales |
| Family: | Oceanospirillaceae |
| Genus: | Thalassolituus Yakimov et al. 2004 |
| Type species | |
| Thalassolituus oleivorans | |
| Species | |
Thalassolituus is an oil-degrading bacterial genus from the family of Oceanospirillaceae. Thalassolituus is a gram-negative, rod-shaped marine bacteria. S.I. Paul et al. (2021) isolated and characterized Thalassolituus species (Thalassolituus marinus) from marine sponge (Cliona carteri) of the Saint Martin's Island of the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh.