Thioploca chileae Maier & Gallardo, 1984
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- phylum
- Pseudomonadota
- class
- Gammaproteobacteria
- order
- Thiotrichales
- family
- Thiotrichaceae
- genus
- Thioploca
- species
- Thioploca chileae
Abstract
Thioploca chileae is a marine thioploca from the benthos of the Chilean continental shelf. It is a colonial, multicellular, gliding trichomes of similar diameter enclosed by a shared sheath. It possesses cellular sulfur inclusions located in a thin peripheral cytoplasm surrounding a large, central vacuole. It is a motile organism through gliding. The trichome diameters of Thioploca chileae range from 12 to 20 μm.