Aestuariibacter
| Aestuariibacter | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Proteobacteria |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Alteromonadales |
| Family: | Alteromonadaceae |
| Genus: |
Aestuariibacter Ye et al. 2004 |
| Type species | |
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Aestuariibacter salexigens |
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| Species | |
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Aestuariibacter aggregatus Aestuariibacter halophilus Aestuariibacter salexigens |
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Aestuariibacter aggregatus Aestuariibacter halophilus Aestuariibacter salexigens
Aestuariibacter is a genus in the class Gammaproteobacteria (Bacteria), composed of four species, namely A. aggregatus, A. halophilus, A. litoralis and the type species A. salexigens. These are strictly aerobic marine rod-shaped bacteria. They share many traits with the sister genus Alteromonas, the type genus of the family (Alteromonadaceae) and order (Alteromonadales).
The name Aestuariibacter derives from the Latin noun aestuarium, a tidal flat (the part of the sea coast which, during the flood-tide, is overflowed, but at ebb-tide is left covered with mud or slime) and the New Latin masculine gender noun bacter, bacterium and thus means a tidal-flat bacterium, as three species, except 'A. halophilus from the Yellow sea, were isolated in tidal flats.
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