| Compare | Herpetosiphon, Thioploca and Thiothrix
        nivea which also
        have sheaths are a lso included in
        the Sheathed
        heterotrophs .
        The genus Lyngbya
        which is one of the cyanobacteria also has a sheath. Sheathed heterotrophs :Clonothrix
        fusca Crenothrix polyspora, Haliscomenobacter
        hydrossis,
        Leptothrix, Lieskeella
        bifida
        Phragmidiothrix
        multiseptata
        Sphaerotilus
        natans
        , Thioploca, Thiothrix nivea, Herpetosiphon Cytophagales, Beggiatoales Single Celled, rod shaped Capnocytophaga,
        Chitinophaga
        pinensis , Cytophaga, Flexibacter,
        Flexithrix dorotheae,
        Lysobacter,
        Microscilla,
        Sporocytophaga
        myxococcoides, Thermomena,Flattened, filamentous Gliding: Alysiella filiformis,
        Simonsiella,
 Sulfur oxidizing,Gliding: Achromatium,
        Beggiatoa alba,
        Thioploca,
        Thiospirillopsis
        floridana, Thiothrix nivea,
 The Pelonemas: Achroanema spp, Desmanthos thiorenophilum,
        Pelenema,
        Peloploca,
 Other Genera: Agitococcus lubricus ,
        Desulfonema
        Herpetosiphon,
        Isosphaera pallida,
        Leucothrix mucor,
        Saprospira,
        Toxothrix
        trichogenes,Vitreoscilla
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