Selenomonad

Selenomonad
Scientific classification Edit this 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
Species[2]

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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.

  1. ^ Von Prowazek, S. (1913). "Zur Parasitologie von Westafrika" [Parasitology of West Africa]. Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, Parasitenkunde, Infektionskrankheiten und Hygiene, Abteilung I. 7 (1/2): 32–36.
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