Cloacibacterium
| Cloacibacterium | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Bacteroidota |
| Class: | Flavobacteriia |
| Order: | Flavobacteriales |
| Family: | Weeksellaceae |
| Genus: | Allen et al. 2006[1] |
| Type species | |
| Cloacibacterium normanense[1] | |
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C. haliotis[1] | |
Cloacibacterium normanense is a bacterium originally found in wastewater in Norman, Oklahoma. It is Gram-negative, non-motile, and facultatively anaerobic. Physically, it is a rod-shaped organism with yellow pigmentation.
This organism was discovered using a non-selective medium, as opposed to the traditional selective media often used to isolate microorganisms. In this case, the method involved diluting raw sewage.
References
- Allen, Toby D.; et al. (2006). "Cloacibacterium normanense gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel bacterium in the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from municipal wastewater". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 56 (Pt 6): 1311–1316. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64218-0. PMID 16738108.
- Peterson, Althea (2006-06-17). "Tiny discovery made in Norman". The Norman Transcript. Retrieved 9 February 2016.