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:
Itzigsohn 1868[1]
Type species
Zoogloea ramigera
Species

Zoogloea caeni
Zoogloea oryzae
Zoogloea ramigera
Zoogloea resiniphila
Zoogloea oleivorans

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[2] in the Rhodocyclales of the class Betaproteobacteria.[3][4][2]

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