''Crossiella'' is a genus in the phylum
Actinomycetota
The ''Actinomycetota'' (or ''Actinobacteria'') are a phylum of all gram-positive bacteria. They can be terrestrial or aquatic. They are of great economic importance to humans because agriculture and forests depend on their contributions to s ...
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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 am ...
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Etymology
The name ''Crossiella'' 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 ...
named for Thomas Cross, a microbiologist at the University of Bradford, who made many contributions to actinomycete biology and systematics.
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Species
The genus contains two species, namely[
* '' C. cryophila'' ( (Labeda and Lechevalier 1989) Labeda 2001, (type species of the genus); ]Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
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*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
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''kruos'', icy cold, frost; New Latin ''philus'' from Greek ''philos (φίλος)'' meaning friend, loving; New Latin ''cryophila'', cold-loving, referring to the low permissive temperature range for growth.)
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
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References
Bacteria genera
Actinomycetota
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