thalassotalea ponticola thalassotalea ponticola thalassotalea ponticola is a gram-negative and aerobic bacterium from the genus of thalassotalea which has been isolated from seawater from the geoje island in korea. thalassotalea ponticola scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: gammaproteobacteria order: alteromonadales family: colwelliaceae genus: thalassotalea species: t. ponticola binomial name thalassotalea ponticolapark et al. 2014 type strain cect 8656, kctc 42155, gjsw-36 synonyms thalassotalea pontivita