thalassotalea crassostreae thalassotalea crassostreae thalassotalea crassostreae is a gram-negative, aerobic and rod-shaped bacterium from the genus of thalassotalea which has been isolated from the oyster crassostrea gigas from the yeongheung island in south korea. thalassotalea crassostreae scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: gammaproteobacteria order: alteromonadales family: colwelliaceae genus: thalassotalea species: t. crassostreae binomial name thalassotalea crassostreaechoi et al. 2017 type strain jcm 31189, kacc 18695, lpb0076, lpb0090