Blattabacterium

Blattabacterium
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Bacteroidota
Class: Flavobacteriia
Order: Flavobacteriales
Family: Blattabacteriaceae
Kambhampati 2012
Genus: Blattabacterium
Hollande and Favre 1931 (Approved Lists 1980)
Species
  • "B. clevelandi" Clark and Kambhampati 2003
  • B. cuenoti (Mercier 1906) Hollande and Favre 1931 (Approved Lists 1980)
  • "B. Blattabacterium punctulatus" Clark and Kambhampati 2003
  • "B. Blattabacterium relictus" Clark and Kambhampati 2003

Blattabacterium is a genus of obligate mutualistic endosymbiont bacteria that are believed to inhabit all species of cockroach studied to date, with the exception of the genus Nocticola. The genus' presence in the termite Mastotermes darwiniensis led to speculation, later confirmed, that termites and cockroaches are evolutionarily linked.

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