thalassotalea thalassotalea thalassotalea is an aerobic and chemo-organo-heterotrophic genus of bacteria from the family colwelliaceae which occur in the ocean and in sea ice. thalassotalea scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: gammaproteobacteria order: alteromonadales family: colwelliaceae genus: thalassotaleazhang et al. 2014 type species thalassotalea agariperforans species t. agariperforans t. agarivorans t. atypica t. coralli t. crassostreae t. euphylliae t. eurytherma t. ganghwensis t. insulae t. litorea t. loyana t. marina t. montiporae t. ponticola t. piscium t. profundi t. sediminis