''Marichromatium'' is a genus in the phylum
Pseudomonadota
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Bacteria
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). The name ''Marichromatium'' derives from:
Latin
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''mare'', the sea;
New Latin
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''Chromatium'', a genus name; to give ''Marichromatium'', the ''Chromatium'' of the sea, the truly marine ''Chromatium''.
Species
The genus contains five species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely:
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* '' M. bheemlicum'' (Anil Kumar ''et al''. 2007, New Latin ''bheemlicum'', pertaining to Bheemli, the place from which the type strain was isolated)
* '' M. fluminis'' (Sucharita ''et al''. 2010, Latin n ''fluminis'', of a river, referring to the isolation of the type strain from sediment of the Baitarani River, located in Kalibanj Forest, Orissa, India)
* '' M. gracile'' (Strzeszewski 1913) Imhoff ''et al''. 1998, (type species of the genus), Latin ''gracile'', thin, slender)]
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
Chromatiales
Bacteria genera
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