thiorhodococcus fuscus thiorhodococcus fuscus thiorhodococcus fuscus is a gram-negative, moderately halophilic and photoautotrophic bacterium from the genus of thiorhodococcus which has been isolated from sediments from the chilika lagoon in india. thiorhodococcus fuscus scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: gammaproteobacteria order: chromatiales family: chromatiaceae genus: thiorhodococcus species: t. fuscus binomial name thiorhodococcus fuscuslakshmi et al. 2015 type strain kctc 5701, nbrc 104959, strain ja363 synonyms thiorhodococcus satpadensis