Acidaminobacter
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- phylum
- Firmicutes
- class
- Clostridia
- order
- Clostridiales
- family
- Clostridiaceae
- genus
- Acidaminobacter
Abstract
Acidaminobacter is a genus in the phylum Bacillota (Bacteria).
Etymology
The name Acidaminobacter derives from New Latin acidum aminum, amino acid, a rod bacter, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, a staff or rod; resulting in Acidaminobacter, the amino acid rod bacterium.
Species
The genus contains a single species, Acidaminobacter hydrogenoformans (Stams and Hansen 1985, type species of the genus). The specific name is based on New Latin hydrogenum (from Greek húdōr (ὕδωρ), water; and gennaō (γεννάω), to produce) hydrogen (that which produces water, so called because it forms water when exposed to oxygen); Latin formans, forming, giving hydrogen-forming.)
Name
- Homonyms
- Acidaminobacter