| Cross Index | Anaerorhabdus furcosus |
| Morphology | Anaerorhabdus furcosus |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram negative |
| Morphology | pleomorphic short rods (0.3- 1.5um x 1-3 um) Cells occur singly, in pairs, or short chains. Some cells are forked or Y-shaped |
| Motility | non moitle |
| Specialized structures | no spores |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Anaerorhabdus furcosus |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
| Oxygen | anaerobe |
| pH | |
| Temperature | |
| Requirements | |
| Products | generally assacharolytic although a few
carbohydrates are fermented weakly. Acetic and lactic
acids are the major metabolic end products lacks both sphingolipids and menaquinones . Its non-hydroxylated cellular fatty acids are predominantly of the straight chain type |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | isolated from appendix abcesses, lung and abdominal abcesses and occaionally from human and pig feces |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Anaerorhabdus furcosus |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Anaerorhabdus furcosus |
| First Citation | Shah and Collins 1986 Syst. Appl. Microbiol 8:86-88 Shah and Collins 1986 IJSB 36:573 |
| The Prokaryotes | p |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 293-294 |
| References |