BioConcepts

nanobacteriaNanobakterien (ger.)

• A bacterium of a much smaller size than ordinary bacteria. (OED 2012)
  category bacterium

  1993

  nannobacteria

  Folk, R.L. (1993). SEM imaging of bacteria and nannobacteria in carbonate sediments and rocks. J. Sediment. Petrology 63, 990-999; cf. Vainshtein, M.B. (2000). Nannobacteria. Microbiol. 69, 129-138.