thumb|Chroococcidiopsis thermalis can photosynthesize in far-red light, and might be suitable for future Mars colonists.
GENUS
via GBIF
thumb|Chroococcidiopsis thermalis can photosynthesize in far-red light, and might be suitable for future Mars colonists.
Chroococcidiopsis is a photosynthetic, coccoidal bacterium, and the only genus in the order Chroococcidiopsidales and in the family Chroococcidiopsidaceae. A diversity of species and cultures exist within the genus, with a diversity of phenotypes. Some extremophile members of Chroococcidiopsis are known for their ability to survive harsh environmental conditions, including both high and low temperatures, ionizing radiation, and high salinity.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).