thalassotalea loyana thalassotalea loyana thalassotalea loyana is a bacterium from the genus of thalassotalea. thalassomonas loyana can cause white plague disease in the coral favia favus. thalassotalea loyana scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: gammaproteobacteria order: alteromonadales family: colwelliaceae genus: thalassotalea species: t. loyana binomial name thalassotalea loyanazhang et al. 2014 type strain cbmai 722, lmg 22536, ma3 synonyms thalassomonas loyana