Strictly aerobic bacterium.
Isolated from hydrothermal sulfide at the Wocan hydrothermal field, located on the north-west slope of an axial slow-spreading Carlsberg volcanic ridge at a depth of 2928 m, northwest Indian Ocean (60.52 deg E, 6.36 deg N).
Wocania indica gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from deep sea hydrothermal sulfide in the northwest Indian Ocean, and proposal to reclassify Flaviramulus ichthyoenteri as Wocania ichthyoenteri comb. nov.