General Information: Country: Costa Rica; Environment: Mud; Isolation: Beach mud; Limon, Costa Rica; Temp: Mesophile. Cellulophaga lytica is a member of a Cytophaga-Flavobacterium-Bacteroides(CFB) group of gliding, yellow/orange-pigmented bacteria that were isolated from the surface of the marine benthicmacroalga Fucus serratus.