''Carnimonas'' is a genus in the phylum

Pseudomonadota Pseudomonadota (synonym Proteobacteria) is a major phylum of Gram-negative bacteria. The renaming of phyla in 2021 remains controversial among microbiologists, many of whom continue to use the earlier names of long standing in the literature. The ...

( Bacteria).

Etymology

The name ''Carnimonas'' derives from: : Latin noun ''caro'' ''carnis'', flesh, meat; Latin feminine gender noun '' monas (μονάς)'', nominally meaning "a unit", but in effect meaning a bacterium; New Latin feminine gender noun ''Carnimonas'', a monad of meat. Members of the genus Carnimonas can be referred to as carnimonad (''viz.'' Trivialisation of names).

Species

The genus contains a single species, namely '' C. nigrificans'' ( Garriga ''et al''. 1998, (Type species of the genus).;: Latin participle adjective ''nigrificans'', making black.)

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Bacteria genera Monotypic bacteria genera Oceanospirillales {{Oceanospirillales-stub

Etymology

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