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Detailed explanation-1: -Thiomargarita magnifica : The world’s largest bacteria in Guadeloupe is up to 2 cm-long. An aerial view of the mangroves of Guadeloupe, a French archipelago in the Caribbean, where the unusually large bacterium Thiomargarita magnifica was found.

Detailed explanation-2: -The world’s largest bacterium has been discovered amongst the mangroves of the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. Measuring over a centimetre long, Thiomargarita magnifica is over 5000 times bigger than the average microbe.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cells of Thiomargarita namibiensis are large enough to be visible to the naked eye. Although the species held the record for the largest known bacterium, Epulopiscium fishelsoni – previously discovered in the gut of surgeonfish – grows slightly longer, but narrower. Thiomargarita means “sulfur pearl".

Detailed explanation-4: -Scientists have identified a macroscopic species of bacterium in the waters of a Caribbean mangrove swamp, changing the size of how big bacteria were thought to be. The new species, Thiomargarita magnifica, meaning “sulfur pearl,” is a huge thin white filament visible to the naked eye.

Detailed explanation-5: -Named Thiomargarita magnifica, the bacterium is thousands of times larger than other known bacteria.