Dehalogenimonas
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| Dehalogenimonas | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Chloroflexota |
| Class: | Dehalococcoidia |
| Order: | Dehalococcoidales |
| Family: | Dehalococcoidaceae |
| Genus: | Dehalogenimonas Moe et al. 2009[1] |
| Type species | |
| Dehalogenimonas lykanthroporepellens Moe et al. 2009 | |
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Dehalogenimonas is a genus in the phylum Chloroflexota (Bacteria).[1] Members of the genus Dehalogenimonas can be referred to as dehalogenimonads (viz. Trivialisation of names).
The name Dehalogenimonas derives from:
Latin prep. de, away, off; Neo-Latin noun halogenum, halogen; Latin feminine gender noun monas (μονάς), unit, monad; Neo-Latin feminine gender noun Dehalogenimonas, dehalogenating monad, reflecting the ability of these bacteria to dehalogenate chlorinated alkanes.[1]
The type species of the genus is D. lykanthroporepellens[1] (Moe et al. 2009). The species epithet derives from the Greek noun lykanthropos (λυκάνθρωπος), werewolf; Latin participle adjective repellens, repelling; Neo-Latin participle adjective lykanthroporepellens, repelling `werewolves, because compounds exhibiting a pungent garlic aroma are produced when these organisms grow in the presence of 1,2,3-trichloropropane as an electron acceptor and sulfide as a reducing agent, garlic being said to repel werewolves in some fiction literature.[2]