Aestuariimicrobium
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- phylum
- Actinomycetota
- class
- Actinomycetia
- order
- Propionibacteriales
- family
- Propionibacteriaceae
- genus
- Aestuariimicrobium
Abstract
Aestuariimicrobium is a singleton genus in the phylum Actinomycetota (Bacteria), whose sole member, namely Aestuariimicrobium kwangyangense, was isolated from a diesel contaminated coastal site. Like all Actinobacteria, it is gram-positive and with a high CG content (69%). It is rod/coccoid shaped bacterium whose main quinone is menaquinone-7 (MK7).
Etymology
The name Aestuariimicrobium derives from the Latin noun aestuarium, the part of the sea coast which, during the flood-tide, is overflowed, but at ebb-tide is left covered with mud or slime, a tidal flat; New Latin neuter gender noun microbium, microbe; New Latin neuter gender noun Aestuariimicrobium, a microbe isolated from tidal flat. The adjective kwangyangense, means of or pertaining to Kwangyang, Korea, from where the type strain was isolated.
Name
- Homonyms
- Aestuariimicrobium