''Chryseomicrobium excrementi'' is a Gram-positive,

rod-shaped A bacillus (), also called a bacilliform bacterium or often just a rod (when the context makes the sense clear), is a rod-shaped bacterium or archaeon. Bacilli are found in many different taxonomic groups of bacteria. However, the name ''Bacillu ...

, slightly halotolerant and nitrate-reducing bacterium from the genus of ''

Chryseomicrobium ''Chryseomicrobium'' is a bacteria genus from the family of Planococcaceae The ''Caryophanaceae'' is a family of Gram-positive bacteria. In 2020, the now defunct family '' Planococcaceae'' was merged into ''Caryophanaceae'' to rectify a nomen ...

'' which has been isolated from the cast of an earthworm ('' Eisenia fetida'') from the University of North Bengal at Siliguri in

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Bacillales Bacteria described in 2018 {{Firmicutes-stub