Zoogloea
| Zoogloea | |
|---|---|
| Two strains of Zoogloea resiniphila. Wild type is on the left. The right is a strain unable to form floc. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Betaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Rhodocyclales |
| Family: | Zoogloeaceae |
| Genus: | Zoogloea Itzigsohn 1868 |
| Type species | |
| Zoogloea ramigera | |
| Species | |
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Zoogloea caeni | |
Zoogloea, also known as zoöglœa, is a genus of gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped bacterium that plays a role in wastewater treatment, the degradation of organic pollutants, and environmental bioremediation, from the family of Zoogloeaceae in the Rhodocyclales of the class Betaproteobacteria.