''Cellulosilyticum lentocellum'' is an

anaerobic Anaerobic means "living, active, occurring, or existing in the absence of free oxygen", as opposed to aerobic which means "living, active, or occurring only in the presence of oxygen." Anaerobic may also refer to: *Adhesive#Anaerobic, Anaerobic ad ...

and spore-forming bacterium from the genus ''

Cellulosilyticum ''Cellulosilyticum'' is a mesophilic bacterial genus from the family of Lachnospiraceae. Phylogeny The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechno ...

'', which has been isolated from sediments from the River Don in

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. ''C. lentocellum'' produces cellobiose 2-epimerase.

References

Lachnospiraceae Bacteria described in 1987 {{Firmicutes-stub