''Acanthopleuribacter pedis'' is a

Gram-negative Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. They are characterized by their cell envelopes, which are composed of a thin peptidoglycan cell wall ...

, rod-shaped bacterium found in marine environments. ''Acanthopleuribacter pedis'' is one of only two species of acidobacteria to have been isolated from animals. Colonies on marine agar are circular, smooth and yellow in color. ''Acanthopleuribacter pedis'' are found on marine agar at a temperature of 15–30 °C (optimally at 30 °C), and grows at a pH of 5–9 (optimally at pH 7–8).

Etymology

The etymology of the genus is: N.L. n. ''

Acanthopleura ''Acanthopleura'' is a genus of chitons in the family Chitonidae Chitonidae is a family of chitons or polyplacophorans, marine mollusks whose shell is composed of eight articulating plates or valves. There are fifteen extant genera in three s ...

'', a genus of

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; N.L. masc. n. '' bacter'', a rod; N.L. masc. n. ''Acanthopleuribacter'', a rod from ''Acanthopleura'', referring to the isolation of the first strain from the chiton ''Acanthopleura japonica''. The genus contains a single species namely ''A. pedis'' ( Fukunaga ''et al.'' 2008, sp. nov. (Type species of the genus).; L. gen. n. ''pedis'', of the foot, referring to the isolation of the type strain from the foot of a chiton.) Members of the phylum Acidobacteria are ubiquitous in various environments. Soil acidobacteria have been reported to present a variety of strategies for their success in terrestrial environments

References

Acidobacteriota {{Acidobacteria-stub Wang, Guanghua, et al. (2022). Comparative Genomics Reveal the Animal-Associated Features of the Acanthopleuribacteraceae Bacteria, and Description of Sulfitobacter corallicola gen. nov., sp., nov. Frontiers in microbiology. Vol.13, p.778535-778535. doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.778535