''Cystobacter'' is a genus in the phylum
Myxococcota (
Bacteria
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).
Etymology
The genus name stems from
Greek
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Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
noun ''
κύστις (kustis)'', meaning "bladder" and
Neo-Latin
Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith ''Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin'' in ; others, throughout. (also known as New Latin and Modern Latin) is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy d ...
masculine noun ''
bacter'' "rod" consequently the Neo-Latin masculine noun ''Cystobacter'' means bladder-forming rod.
Species
The genus contains 8 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely
[
* '' C. armeniaca'' Reichenbach 2007 (L. fem. n. ''armeniaca'', an apricot-tree, intended to mean apricot-colored.)]
* '' C. badius'' Reichenbach 2007 (L. masc. adj. ''badius'', chestnut brown.)
* '' C. ferrugineus'' ( Krzemieniewska and Krzemieniewski 1927) McCurdy 1970 (L. masc. adj. ''ferrugineus'', of the color of iron-rust, dark-red.)
* '' C. fuscus'' Schroeter 1886 (L. masc. adj. ''fuscus'', dark, swarthy, dusky, tawny.)
* '' C. miniatus'' Reichenbach 2007 (L. masc. part. adj. ''miniatus'', cinnabar-red.)
* '' C. velatus'' Reichenbach 2007 (L. part. adj. ''velatus'', veiled, covered.)
Phylogeny
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature
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(LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information
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(NCBI)
See also
* Bacterial taxonomy
Bacterial taxonomy is subfield of taxonomy devoted to the classification of bacteria specimens into taxonomic ranks. Archaeal taxonomy are governed by the same rules.
In the scientific classification established by Carl Linnaeus, each species is ...
* Microbiology
Microbiology () is the branches of science, scientific study of microorganisms, those being of unicellular organism, unicellular (single-celled), multicellular organism, multicellular (consisting of complex cells), or non-cellular life, acellula ...
* List of bacterial orders
This article lists the orders of the Bacteria. The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
and the phylogeny is based on 16 ...
* List of bacteria genera
This article lists the genera of the bacteria
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References
Bacteria genera
Myxococcota
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