''Aidingimonas'' is a genus in the phylum
Pseudomonadota
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Bacteria
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Etymology
The name ''Aidingimonas'' derives from:
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 ...
noun ''Aidingum'', Aiding (a lake located in Xinjiang province of north-west China); and
''monas'' (μονάς), monad a unit, a monad;
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 ...
thus ''Aidingimonas'', a monad from Aiding Lake.
Members of the genus ''Aidingimonas'' can be referred to as aidingimonads (''viz.''
Trivialisation of names).
Species
The genus contains a single species,
[ namely '' A. halophila'' ( Wang ''et al''. 2009, type species of the genus); ''hals, halos'' (ἅλς, ἁλός), salt; and ''phila'' ''philē'' (φίλη)), friend, loving; thus ''halophila'', salt-loving).]
See also
* Bacterial taxonomy
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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
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References
Monotypic bacteria genera
Oceanospirillales
Bacteria genera
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