Acidiplasma

Acidiplasma is a genus in the phylum Euryarchaeota (Archaea).[1]

Acidiplasma
Scientific classification
Domain:
Archaea
Phylum:
Euryarchaeota
Class:
Thermoplasmata
Order:
Thermoplasmatales
Family:
Ferroplasmaceae
Genus:
Acidiplasma
Type species
A. aeolicum

Etymology

The name Acidiplasma derives from:
New Latin neuter gender n acidum, an acid; Greek neuter gender noun plasma (πλάσμα), something shaped or moulded; New Latin neuter gender noun Acidiplasma, an acid-living form.[2]

Species

The genus contains 2 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely[2]

  • A. aeolicum ( Golyshina et al. 2009, (Type species of the genus).; Latin neuter gender adjective aeolicum, from the Aeolian archipelago, to which Vulcano Island belongs, where the type strain was isolated.)[3]
  • A. cupricumulans ( (Hawkes et al. 2008) Golyshina et al. 2009, ; Latin noun cuprum, copper; Latin participle adjective cumulans, heaping up, accumulating; New Latin participle adjective cupricumulans, copper-accumulating.)[3]

See also

References
  1. Classification of Genera AC entry in LPSN; Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 47 (2): 590–2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. PMID 9103655.
  2. Acidiplasma entry in LPSN; Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 47 (2): 590–2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. PMID 9103655.
  3. Golyshina, O. V.; Yakimov, M. M.; Lunsdorf, H.; Ferrer, M.; Nimtz, M.; Timmis, K. N.; Wray, V.; Tindall, B. J.; Golyshin, P. N. (2009). "Acidiplasma aeolicum gen. Nov., sp. Nov., a euryarchaeon of the family Ferroplasmaceae isolated from a hydrothermal pool, and transfer of Ferroplasma cupricumulans to Acidiplasma cupricumulans comb. Nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 59 (11): 2815–2823. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.009639-0. PMID 19628615.
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