Bacillus arseniciselenatis

Bacillus arseniciselenatis is a bacterium first isolated from Mono Lake, California. It is notable for respiring oxyanions of selenium and arsenic.^[1] It is spore-forming, rod-shaped and alkaliphile, its type strain being E1H. It is a strict anaerobe.

Bacillus arseniciselenatis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Bacilli
Order:	Bacillales
Family:	Bacillaceae
Genus:	Bacillus
Species:	B. arseniciselenatis
Binomial name
Bacillus arseniciselenatis Blum et al., 1998