Cable bacterium.
Isolated from sediment samples which were taken at sites with known Candidatus Electrothrix populations, i.e., Marselisborg harbour, DK (56.1383 N, 10.2145 E), in December 2019.
First single-strain enrichments of Electrothrix cable bacteria, description of E. aestuarii sp. nov. and E. rattekaaiensis sp. nov., and proposal of a cable bacteria taxonomy following the rules of the SeqCode.