Opitutus terrae is an obligately anaerobic (cannot grow in the presence of oxygen) bacterium first isolated from rice paddy soil, hence its epithet.
It is coccus-shaped and is motile by means of a flagellum.
Its type strain is PB90-1T (= DSM 11246T).
[1] Its genome has been sequenced.
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