''Aggregatibacter'' is a genus in the phylum
Pseudomonadota
Pseudomonadota (synonym Proteobacteria) is a major phylum of Gram-negative bacteria. The renaming of phyla in 2021 remains controversial among microbiologists, many of whom continue to use the earlier names of long standing in the literature. The ...
(
Bacteria
Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were among ...
), which contains three species, namely:
* ''
A. actinomycetemcomitans'' (Klinger 1912) Nørskov-Lauritsen and Kilian 2006, (type species of the genus); (from
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
noun (ἀκτίς, ἀκτῖνος), a beam;
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
''mukēs -ētos'', mushroom or other fungus;
New Latin
New Latin (also called Neo-Latin or Modern Latin) is the revival of Literary Latin used in original, scholarly, and scientific works since about 1500. Modern scholarly and technical nomenclature, such as in zoological and botanical taxonomy ...
''actinomyces'' -''etis'', an actinomycete; Latin ''comitans'', accompanying; New Latin ''actinomycetemcomitans'', accompanying an actinomycete)
* ''
A. aphrophilus'' (Khairat 1940) Nørskov-Lauritsen and Kilian 2006, (from Ancient Greek , foam; New Latin from Greek (φίλος) meaning friend, loving; New Latin ''aphrophilus'', foam-loving)
[
* '' A. segnis'' (Kilian 1977) Nørskov-Lauritsen and Kilian 2006, (from Latin ''segnis'', slow, sluggish, inactive)][
]
See also
* Bacterial taxonomy
Bacterial taxonomy is the taxonomy, i.e. the rank-based classification, of bacteria.
In the scientific classification established by Carl Linnaeus, each species has to be assigned to a genus ( binary nomenclature), which in turn is a lower level ...
* Microbiology
Microbiology () is the scientific study of microorganisms, those being unicellular (single cell), multicellular (cell colony), or acellular (lacking cells). Microbiology encompasses numerous sub-disciplines including virology, bacteriology, prot ...
References
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Bacteria genera
Pasteurellales