| Cross Index | Simonsiella |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gliding Bacteria |
| Compare | Cytophagales, Beggiatoales Single
Celled, rod shaped Capnocytophaga,
Chitinophaga
pinensis , Cytophaga, Flexibacter,
Flexithrix dorotheae,
Lysobacter,
Microscilla,
Sporocytophaga
myxococcoides, Thermomena, |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Simonsiella |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram-negative. |
| Morphology | Organisms that exist in characteristic multicellular filaments which are often segmented into groups of eight cells. The long axis of an individual cell is perpendicular to the long axis of the filament. The diameter of the filaments (the width of the individual cells) may vary from about 2.0-8.0 um, and the length of filaments may vary from about 10.0 to over 50.0 um. Individual cells within the filaments may be from about 0.5 to 1.3 um long. In thin sections cut perpendicular to the long axis of the filament, the cells are flattened and curved to yield a crescent-shaped, convex-concave (dorsal-ventral) asymmetry. The ends of the individual filaments are rounded. |
| Motility | Motile by gliding of the entire filament in the direction of the long axis |
| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Simonsiella |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Chemoorganotrophs |
| Oxygen | Aerobic. |
| pH | |
| Temperature | |
| Requirements | |
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| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Simonsiella |
| G+C Mol % | 41 to 55 (Bd) |
| Reference | Simonsiella |
| First citation | Schmid in Simons, H. 1922. Saprophytische oscilllarien des menschen und der tiere. Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasitenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. Abt I. Orig. 88: 501-510 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2107 J.M. Larkin |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 490 |
| References |