| Moraxella lacunata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Pseudomonadales |
| Family: | Moraxellaceae |
| Genus: | Moraxella |
| Species: | M. lacunata
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| Binomial name | |
| Moraxella lacunata (Eyre 1900) Lwoff 1939 (Approved Lists 1980)
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Moraxella lacunata is a rod-shaped,[1] Gram-negative, nonmotile bacterium, generally present as diploid pairs.[2] It causes one of the commonest forms of catarrhal conjunctivitis.[3]
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