| Cross Index | Melittangium |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Myxobacteria |
| Compare | Angiococcus disciformis, Archangium gephyra, Chondromyces, "Corallococcus", Cystobacter, "Haploangium", Melittangium, Myxococcus, Nannocystis exedens, Polyangium "Sorangium cellulosum" Stigmatella |
| Contrast | Archaea |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Melittangium |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | |
| Morphology | Vegetative cells are tapered rods |
| Motility | gliding motility |
| Specialized structures | Sporangia are solitary, often on a stalk. Microcysts are rod-shaped, optically dense or refractile. |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface | Vegetative colonies do not etch or erode agar media. Congo red is absorbed. |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Melittangium |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
| Oxygen | |
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| Requirements | Minimum nutritional requirements are unknown, but this organism is cultivatable on media containing enzymatically hydrolyzed protein. |
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| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
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| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Melittangium |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Melittangium |
| First citation | Jahn,E. 1924. Beitrage zur botanischen Protistologie. I. Die Polyangiden. Verlag Gebruder Borntraeger, Leipzig, pp 1-107. |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2153 H. D. McCurdy |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 522 |
| References |