Bacteriochlorophyll a-containing, aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacterial strain.
Isolated from the brown macroalga Fucus spiralis sampled in a tidal flat area of the southern North Sea at the village of Neuharlingersiel in Germany (53 deg 42 min 14 sec N 07 deg 42 min 13 sec E) on 8 June 2010.