Megasphaera

Megasphaera
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Negativicutes
Order:	Veillonellales
Family:	Veillonellaceae
Genus:	Megasphaera; Rogosa 1971
Type species
	Megasphaera elsdenii; (Gutierrez et al. 1959) Rogosa 1971
Species
	See text

Megasphaera is a genus of Bacillota bacteria classified within the class Negativicutes.^[1]^[2]

This classification has been reexamined.^[3] It appears that this genus is a member of the Clostridia.

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^ Yutin N, Galperin MY (2013) A genomic update on Clostridial phylogeny: Gram-negative spore formers and other misplaced Clostridia. Environ Microbiol doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12173