Bacillus selenitireducens

Bacillus selenitireducens 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 MLS10.

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

This species has been recently transferred into the genus Salisediminibacterium.^[2] The correct nomenclature is Salisediminibacterium selenitireducens.