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Cucumibacter Scientific classification Domain: Bacteria Phylum: "Proteobacteria" Class: Alphaproteobacteria Order: Rhizobiales Family: Hyphomicrobiaceae Genus: Cucumibacter Type species C. marinus Cucumibacter is a genus in the phylum Proteobacteria (Bacteria).[1]
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Etymology
The name Cucumibacter derives from:
Latin noun cucumis, cucumber; New Latin masculine gender noun , a rodbacter, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, rod; New Latin masculine gender noun Cucumibacter, a cucumber-like rod.[2]Species
The genus contains a single species,[2] namely C. marinus ( Hwang and Cho 2008, (Type species of the genus).; Latin masculine gender adjective marinus, referring to the sea, from where the type strain was isolated.)[3]
See Also
- Bacterial taxonomy
- Microbiology
References
- ^ Classification of Genera AC entry in LPSN [Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". Int J Syst Bacteriol 47 (2): 590-2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9103655. http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/47/2/590.]
- ^ a b Cucumibacter entry in LPSN [Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". Int J Syst Bacteriol 47 (2): 590-2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9103655. http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/47/2/590.]
- ^ Hwang, C. Y.; Cho, B. C. (2008). "Cucumibacter marinus gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium in the family Hyphomicrobiaceae". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 58 (7): 1591–1597. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.65587-0.
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