Fusicatenibacter
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| Fusicatenibacter | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Eubacteriales |
| Family: | Lachnospiraceae |
| Genus: | Fusicatenibacter Takada et al. 2013 |
| Type species | |
| Fusicatenibacter saccharivorans | |
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Fusicatenibacter is a genus of Gram-positive bacteria in the family Lachnospiraceae. It was first described in 2013 to accommodate the newly isolated species Fusicatenibacter saccharivorans, a butyrate-producing anaerobe from human feces.[1]