paraglaciecola arctica paraglaciecola arctica paraglaciecola arctica is a gram-negative, psychrotolerant and motile bacterium from the genus of paraglaciecola which has been isolated from sediments from the arctic ocean. paraglaciecola arctica scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: gammaproteobacteria order: alteromonadales family: alteromonadaceae genus: paraglaciecola species: p. arctica(zhang et al. 2011) shivaji and reddy 2014 binomial name paraglaciecola arctica type strain cctcc ab 209161, kacc 14537, bss20135 synonyms glaciecola arctica