tenacibaculum agarivorans tenacibaculum agarivorans tenacibaculum agarivorans is a gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped agar-digesting bacterium from the genus of tenacibaculum which has been isolated from the alga (porphyra yezoensis) from the coast of weihai in china. tenacibaculum agarivorans scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: bacteroidota class: flavobacteriia order: flavobacteriales family: flavobacteriaceae genus: tenacibaculum species: t. agarivorans binomial name tenacibaculum agarivoransxu et al. 2017 type strain kctc 52476, mccc 1h00174