''Acidaminobacter'' is a genus in the phylum
Bacillota
The Bacillota (synonym Firmicutes) are a phylum of bacteria, most of which have gram-positive cell wall structure. The renaming of phyla such as Firmicutes in 2021 remains controversial among microbiologists, many of whom continue to use the earl ...
(
Bacteria
Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one Cell (biology), biological cell. They constitute a large domain (biology), domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometr ...
).
Etymology
The name ''Acidaminobacter'' 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 ...
''acidum aminum'', amino acid, a rod''
bacter'', nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, a staff or rod; resulting in ''Acidaminobacter'', the amino acid rod bacterium.
Species
The genus contains a single species,
[ ''Acidaminobacter hydrogenoformans'' (Stams and Hansen 1985, type species of the genus). The specific name is based on New Latin ''hydrogenum'' (from Greek ''húdōr'' (ὕδωρ), water; and ''gennaō'' (γεννάω), to produce) hydrogen (that which produces water, so called because it forms water when exposed to oxygen); Latin ''formans'', forming, giving hydrogen-forming.)]
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 lev ...
* Microbiology
References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q3604482
Bacteria genera
Eubacteriales
Monotypic bacteria genera