Cycloclasticus pugetii

Cycloclasticus pugetii is a species of bacterium found in marine sediments. It is notable for being able to break down aromatic hydrocarbon, including naphthalene, phenanthrene, anthracene and toluene. It is an aerobic, gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium from the family Piscirickettsiaceae, and it is motile by means of single polar flagellum. Strain PS-1 is its type strain.^[1] It was named in honor of Peter Puget.

Cycloclasticus pugetii
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Thiotrichales
Family:	Piscirickettsiaceae
Genus:	Cycloclasticus
Species:	C. pugetii
Binomial name
Cycloclasticus pugetii Dyksterhouse et al. 1995