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''Gluconacetobacter'' is a genus in the phylum
Pseudomonadota Pseudomonadota (synonym "Proteobacteria") is a major phylum of gram-negative bacteria. Currently, they are considered the predominant phylum within the domain of bacteria. They are naturally found as pathogenic and free-living (non- parasitic) ...
(
Bacteria Bacteria (; : bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one Cell (biology), biological cell. They constitute a large domain (biology), domain of Prokaryote, prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micr ...
). In 2012, several species previously classified in the genus ''Gluconacetobacter'' were reclassified under the new genus ''
Komagataeibacter ''Komagataeibacter'' is a genus of bacteria in the family Acetobacteraceae. It was described in 2012 by Yamada ''et al''. The type species is '' Komagataeibacter xylinus''. Species The genus contains the following species: * '' Komagataeibact ...
'', including the cellulose producing species '' Komagataeibacter xylinus''.


Etymology

The name ''Gluconacetobacter'' derives from:
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 ...
''acidum gluconicum'', gluconic acid;
Latin Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...
noun ''acetum'', vinegar; Neo-Latin ''bacter'', rod; giving ''Gluconacetobacter'', gluconate-vinegar rod.


Species

The genus contains the following species: * '' Gluconacetobacter aggeris'' corrig. Nishijima ''et al''. 2013 * '' Gluconacetobacter asukensis'' Tazato ''et al''. 2012 * '' Gluconacetobacter azotocaptans'' Fuentes-Ramírez ''et al''. 2001 * ''
Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus ''Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus'' is a bacterium with a rod-like shape, has rounded ends and belongs to Gram-negative bacteria. The bacterium is known for stimulating plant growth and being tolerant to acetic acid. With one to three lateral f ...
'' corrig. (Gillis ''et al''. 1989) Yamada ''et al''. 1998 * '' Gluconacetobacter dulcium'' Sombolestani ''et al''. 2021 * '' Gluconacetobacter entanii'' Schüller ''et al''. 2000 * '' Gluconacetobacter johannae'' Fuentes-Ramírez ''et al''. 2001 * '' Gluconacetobacter liquefaciens'' corrig. (Asai 1935) Yamada ''et al''. 1998 * '' Gluconacetobacter sacchari'' Franke ''et al''. 1999 * '' Gluconacetobacter takamatsuzukensis'' Nishijima ''et al''. 2013 * '' Gluconacetobacter tumulicola'' Tazato ''et al''. 2012 * '' Gluconacetobacter tumulisoli'' Nishijima ''et al''. 2013


See also

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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 ...
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Kombucha Kombucha (also tea mushroom, tea fungus, or Manchurian mushroom when referring to the Microbiological culture, culture; Latin name ''Medusomyces gisevii'') is a fermented beverage, fermented, effervescent, Sweetened beverage, sweetened black ...
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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 ...


References

Bacteria genera Rhodospirillales Taxa described in 1998 {{Alphaproteobacteria-stub