thioploca araucae thioploca araucae thioploca araucae is a marine thioploca from the benthos of the chilean continental shelf. it is a colonial, multicellular, gliding trichomes of similar diameter enclosed by a shared sheath. it possesses cellular sulfur inclusions located in a thin peripheral cytoplasm surrounding a large, central vacuole. it is a motile organism through gliding. the trichome diameters of thioploca araucae range from 30 to 43 μm. thioploca araucae scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: gammaproteobacteria order: thiotrichales family: thiotrichaceae genus: thioploca species: t. araucae binomial name thioploca araucaemaier and gallardo 1984