''Lyticum'' is a genus in the phylum
Pseudomonadota
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Bacteria
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Etymology
The name ''Lyticum'' 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 ...
''lyticus'' (from
Greek
Greek may refer to:
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 ...
''lutikos, ''λυτικός), able to loosen, able to dissolve; to give ''Lyticum'', dissolver.
Species
The genus contains two species (including basonyms and synonyms):
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* '' L. flagellatum'' ( (''ex'' Preer ''et al''. 1974) Preer and Preer 1982, nom. rev. (type species of the genus)]
See also
* Bacterial taxonomy
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In the scientific classification established by Carl Linnaeus, each species is ...
* Microbiology
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References
Rickettsiales
Bacteria genera
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