Coriobacterium

Coriobacterium is a genus of Actinomycetota, in the family Coriobacteriaceae. Coriobacterium are non-motile, Gram-positive, non-sporulating rods, which inhabit the gastrointestinal tract of firebugs (Pyrrhocoris apterus). Up to now there is only one species of this genus known (Coriobacterium glomerans).^[1]

Coriobacterium
An image of Coriobacterium glomerans, the only known species of Coriobacterium, taken using an electron microscope
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Actinomycetota
Class:	Coriobacteriia
Order:	Coriobacteriales
Family:	Coriobacteriaceae
Genus:	Coriobacterium Haas and König 1988[1]
Type species
Coriobacterium glomerans Haas & König 1988
Species[2]
C. glomerans

See also

• Bifidobacterium a similar genus of bacteria.
• List of bacteria genera
• List of bacterial orders