Metabacterium

Metabacterium polyspora is an unusual multiple endospore-producing bacterium isolated from the cecum of guinea pigs.^[3] This bacterium is physically similar to the phylogenetically related surgeonfish intestinal symbiont Epulopiscium fishelsoni.^[4]

Metabacterium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	incertae sedis
Family:	incertae sedis
Genus:	Metabacterium[1][2] Chatton & Perard 1913
Type species
Metabacterium polyspora Chatton & Perard 1913
Species
M. polyspora

See also

• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera