''Cryptanaerobacter'' 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 ...
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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 ...
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Etymology
The name ''Cryptanaerobacter'' derives from: Greek ''cryptos'' (κρυπτός), hidden; ''an'' (ἄν), not; ''aer, aeros'' (ἀήρ, ἀέρος), air;
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 ...
, a rod ''
bacter'', nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, rod; giving ''Cryptanaerobacter'', an anaerobic rod that is hidden within the consortium.
Species
The genus contains a single species,
[ '']Cryptanaerobacter phenolicus
''Cryptanaerobacter phenolicus'' is a gram-positive anaerobic bacterial species in the genus ''Cryptanaerobacter''.
The genus ''Cryptanaerobacter'' contains a single species, namely ''C. phenolicus'' (Type species of the genus).; New Latin noun ...
'' (Juteau ''et al''. 2005, (ype species of the genus). The specific name is from Latin ''phenol'', phenol; ''icus'', suffix used in adjectives with the sense of belonging to; giving ''phenolicus'', belonging to phenol.)
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
Peptococcaceae
Monotypic bacteria genera
Bacteria genera
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