Clostridium uliginosum | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Bacteria |
Division: | Firmicutes |
Class: | Clostridia |
Family: | Clostridiaceae |
Genus: | Clostridium |
Species: | C. uliginosum |
Binomial name | |
Clostridium uliginosum Matthies et al. 2001 |
Clostridium uliginosum is a mesophilic bacterium oxidizing acetate in syntrophic association with a hydrogenotrophic methanogenic bacterium. It is a spore-forming, gram-positive, rod-shaped organism, with type strain BST. Its genome has been sequenced.