Thioflavicoccus
Thioflavicoccus is a Gram-negative, obligately phototrophic, strictly anaerobic and motile genus of bacteria from the family of Chromatiaceae with one known species (Thioflavicoccus mobilis).
| Thioflavicoccus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Chromatiales |
| Family: | Chromatiaceae |
| Genus: | Thioflavicoccus Imhoff and Pfennig 2001 |
| Species: | T. mobilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Thioflavicoccus mobilis Imhoff and Pfennig 2001 | |
Thioflavicoccus mobilis was first discovered during a 1986 "Microbial Diversity" summer course. The microbe was isolated from a flat, laminated microbial mat in a salt marsh and was determined to be a marine bacterium.
The culture was collected from the Great Sippewisset Salt Marsh in Woods Hole, Massachusetts; it was found to be the first purple sulfur bacteria that contained bacteriochlorophyll b as the main photosynthetic pigment. When T. mobilis was first analyzed, it was misidentified as Thiocapsa pfennigii due to its similarities in morphology and structure, but this was later disproved with 16S rDNA sequencing.