''Mariniflexile'' is a

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in the

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(

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). The various

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have been recovered from

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s, springs,

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, and an

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Etymology

The name ''Mariniflexile'' derives from:

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 ...

adjective ''marinus.''

participle adjective ''flexilis'' -''e'', pliant, pliable, flexible;

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 ...

neuter gender In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages wit ...

noun ''Mariniflexile'', is a marine bacterium. The bacteria are rods,

aerobic Aerobic means "requiring air," in which "air" usually means oxygen. Aerobic may also refer to * Aerobic exercise, prolonged exercise of moderate intensity * Aerobics, a form of aerobic exercise * Aerobic respiration, the aerobic process of cellu ...

, move by gliding,

gram negative Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that, unlike gram-positive bacteria, do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. Their defining characteristic is that their cell envelope consists of ...

, non-spore forming, and when grown on appropriate medium, the colonies are orange.

Species

The genus contains the following species: * '' M. fucanivorans'' ( Barbeyron ''et al''. 2008, ;

noun ''fucanum'', fucan (polyfucose);

participle adjective ''vorans'', devouring;

participle adjective ''fucanivorans'', fucan-devouring.) * '' M. gromovii'' ( Nedashkovskaya ''et al''. 2006, (Type species of the genus).;

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noun ''gromovii'', of Gromov, in honour of B. V. Gromov, the Russian aquatic and marine microbiologist.) *'' M. aquimaris ('' Wayne et al. 1987 ; Stackebrandt & Goebel, 1994'').)'' *'' M. jejuense'' (2006 emend. Jung and Yoon 2013.) *'' M. soesokkakense (2006 Nedashkovskaya et al.; 2006 emend. Jung and Yoon 2013.)'' *'' M. ostreae'' (Park ''et al.'' 2015, sp. nov)

References

Flavobacteria Gram-negative bacteria Bacteria genera {{Flavobacteria-stub

Etymology

Species

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