Lentisphaera araneosa

Lentisphaerae aranesa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Lentisphaerae
Class:	Lentisphaeria Cho et al. 2012
Order:	Lentisphaerales Cho et al. 2004
Family:	Lentisphaeraceae Cho and Hedlund 2012
Genus:	Lentisphaera Cho et al. 2004
Species:	Lentisphera araneosa

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.