| Aestuariicola | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacteroidetes |
| Class: | Flavobacteria |
| Order: | Flavobacteriales |
| Family: | Flavobacteriaceae |
| Genus: | Aestuariicola |
| Type species | |
| A. saemankumensis |
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Aestuariicola is a genus in the phylum Bacteroidetes (Bacteria).
The name Aestuariicola derives from:
Latin noun aestuarium, part of the coast that overflows with seawater during a flood-tide and is left covered with mud or slime at ebb-tide, a tidal flat; Latin suff. -cola (from Latin noun incola), a dweller, inhabitant; New Latin masculine gender noun Aestuariicola, a dweller in a tidal flat.
The genus contains a single species, namely A. saemankumensis ( Yoon et al. 2008, (Type species of the genus).; New Latin masculine gender adjective saemankumensis, of Saemankum, from where the organism was isolated.)