Metabacterium

Metabacterium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Firmicutes
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Clostridiales
Genus:	Metabacterium
Species:	M. polyspora
Binomial name
Metabacterium polyspora Chatton and Perard, 1913

Metabacterium polyspora is an unusual multiple endospore-producing bacterium isolated from the cecum of guinea pigs^[1]. This bacterium is physically similar to the phylogenetically related surgeonfish intestinal symbiont Epulopiscium fishelsoni^[2].

References

1. ^ Chatton E, Perard C (1913). "Schizophytes du caecum du cobaye. II. Metabacterium polyspora n. g., n. s.". C.R. Hebd. Soc. Biol. 74 (156): 1232–34. 
2. ^ Angert ER, Brook AE, Pace NR (1996). "Phylogenetic Analysis of Metabacterium polyspora: Clues to the Evolutionary Origin of Daughter Cell Production in Epulopiscium Species, the Largest Bacteria". J Bacteriol 178 (5): 1451–56. PMC 177821. PMID 8631724. http://jb.asm.org/cgi/reprint/178/5/1451?view=long&pmid=8631724.