Algibacter
Genus of bacteria
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Algibacter is a genus in the phylum Bacteroidota (Bacteria).[1]
| Algibacter | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Bacteroidota |
| Class: | Flavobacteriia |
| Order: | Flavobacteriales |
| Family: | Flavobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Algibacter Nedashkovskaya et al. 2004 |
| Type species | |
| Algibacter lectus Nedashkovskaya et al. 2004 | |
Etymology
The name Algibacter derives from:
Latin feminine gender noun alga, seaweed; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun, a rodbacter, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, rod; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun Algibacter, rod isolated from seaweed.[2]
Species
The genus contains 15 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely[2]
- Algibacter aestuarii[3]
- Algibacter agarilyticus[3]
- Algibacter agarivorans[3]
- Algibacter alginicilyticus[3]
- Algibacter amylolyticus[3]
- Algibacter aquimarinus[3]
- Algibacter lectus (Nedashkovskaya et al. 2004, (Type species of the genus).; Latin masculine gender adjective lectus, chosen, selected, referring to a bacterium that forms select, beautiful colonies.)[4]
- Algibacter marinivivus[3]
- Algibacter mikhailovii (Nedashkovskaya et al. 2007; Neo-Latin masculine gender genitive case noun mikhailovii, of Mikhailov, in honour of Valery V. Mikhailov, a Russian microbiologist, for his contributions to the development of marine microbiology.)[5]
- Algibacter miyuki[3]
- Algibacter onchidii[3]
- Algibacter pacificus[3]
- Algibacter pectinivorans[3]
- Algibacter psychrophilus[3]
- Algibacter undariae[3]