Tessaracoccus antarcticus

Tessaracoccus antarcticus is a Gram-positive and facultatively anaerobic bacterium from the genus Tessaracoccus which has been isolated from soil from the Fildes Peninsula.^[1][2][3] Tessaracoccus antarcticus produces rhodopsin.

Tessaracoccus antarcticus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Actinomycetota
Class:	Actinomycetes
Order:	Propionibacteriales
Family:	Propionibacteriaceae
Genus:	Tessaracoccus
Species:	T. antarcticus
Binomial name
Tessaracoccus antarcticus Zhou et al. 2020[1]
Type strain[2]
JDX10 KCTC 49242 MCCC 1H00351