Acidiplasma

Acidiplasma
Scientific classification
Domain:	Archaea
Kingdom:	Methanobacteriati
Phylum:	Thermoplasmatota
Class:	Thermoplasmata
Order:	Thermoplasmatales
Family:	Ferroplasmaceae
Genus:	Acidiplasma Golyshina et al. 2009
Type species
Acidiplasma aeolica Golyshina et al. 2009
Species
A. aeolica A. cupricumulans

Acidiplasma is a genus in the phylum Euryarchaeota (Archaea). ^[1]

Etymology

The name Acidiplasma derives from:
Neo-Latin neuter gender n acidum, an acid; Greek neuter gender noun plasma (πλάσμα), something shaped or moulded; Neo-Latin neuter gender noun Acidiplasma, an acid-living form. ^[2]

Species

The genus contains 2 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely ^[2]

• A. aeolica Golyshina et al. 2009 (Type species of the genus) (Latin neuter gender adjective aeolicum, from the Aeolian archipelago, to which Vulcano Island belongs, where the type strain was isolated.) ^[3]
• A. cupricumulans (Hawkes et al. 2008) Golyshina et al. 2009 (Latin noun cuprum, copper; Latin participle adjective cumulans, heaping up, accumulating; Neo-Latin participle adjective cupricumulans, copper-accumulating.) ^[3]

See also

• List of Archaea genera
• Bacterial taxonomy
• Microbiology

References

1. Classification of Genera AC in LPSN ; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 .
2. Acidiplasma in LPSN ; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 .
3. Golyshina, O. V.; Yakimov, M. M.; Lunsdorf, H.; Ferrer, M.; Nimtz, M.; Timmis, K. N.; Wray, V.; Tindall, B. J.; Golyshin, P. N. (2009). "Acidiplasma aeolicum gen. Nov., sp. Nov., a euryarchaeon of the family Ferroplasmaceae isolated from a hydrothermal pool, and transfer of Ferroplasma cupricumulans to Acidiplasma cupricumulans comb. Nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 59 (11): 2815–2823. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.009639-0 . hdl: 10033/90258 . PMID   19628615.