flavobacterium algicola flavobacterium algicola flavobacterium algicola is a gram-negative, rod-shaped, aerobic and non-motile bacterium from the genus of flavobacterium which has been isolated from a marine algae from the sea of okhotsk near japan. flavobacterium algicola scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: bacteroidota class: flavobacteriia order: flavobacteriales family: flavobacteriaceae genus: flavobacterium species: f. algicola binomial name flavobacterium algicolamiyashita et al. 2010 type strain cip 109574, tc2, nbrc 102673