Selenomonad | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Phylum: | Bacillota |
Class: | Negativicutes |
Order: | Selenomonadales |
Family: | Selenomonadaceae |
Genus: | Selenomonas von Prowazek 1913[1] |
Type species | |
Selenomonas sputigena (Flügge 1886) Boskamp 1922
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Species[2] | |
See text |
Members of the genus Selenomonas (motile crescent-shaped bacteria in general) are referred to trivially as selenomonads. The genus Selenomonas constitutes a group of motile crescent-shaped bacteria and includes species living in the gastrointestinal tracts of animals, in particular the ruminants. A number of smaller forms discovered with the light microscope are now in culture but many, especially the large selenomonads are not, owing to their fastidious and incompletely known growth requirements.