Aestuariibacter
Scientific classification
Domain:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Pseudomonadota
Class:
Gammaproteobacteria
Order:
Alteromonadales
Family:
Alteromonadaceae
Genus:
Aestuariibacter

Ye et al. 2004
Type species
Aestuariibacter salexigens
Species

Aestuariibacter aggregatus Aestuariibacter halophilus Aestuariibacter salexigens

Aestuariibacter is a genus in the class Gammaproteobacteria (Bacteria), composed of four species, namely A. aggregatus, A. halophilus, A. litoralis and the type species A. salexigens.[1] These are strictly aerobic marine rod-shaped bacteria.[2] They share many traits with the sister genus Alteromonas, the type genus of the family (Alteromonadaceae) and order (Alteromonadales).

Etymology

The name Aestuariibacter derives from the Latin noun aestuarium, a tidal flat (the part of the sea coast which, during the flood-tide, is overflowed, but at ebb-tide is left covered with mud or slime) and the Neo-Latin masculine gender noun bacter, bacterium and thus means a tidal-flat bacterium,[2] as three species, except A. halophilus from the Yellow sea, were isolated in tidal flats.

References

  1. ↑ Aestuariibacter in LPSN; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004332.
  2. 1 2 Yi, H. (2004). "Aestuariibacter salexigens gen. nov., sp. nov. And Aestuariibacter halophilus sp. nov., isolated from tidal flat sediment, and emended description of Alteromonas macleodii". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54 (2): 571–576. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02798-0. PMID 15023977.


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