Acidocella | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Bacteria |
Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
Class: | Alphaproteobacteria |
Order: | Rhodospirillales |
Family: | Acetobacteraceae |
Genus: | Acidocella Kishimoto et al. 1996 |
Type species | |
A. facilis |
Acidocella is a genus in the phylum Pseudomonadota (Bacteria). [1] Its members are acidophilic.
The name Acidocella derives from Neo-Latin acidum (from Latin acidus, sour), an acid; Latin cella, a store-room, a chamber and, in biology, a cell; giving Acidocella, an acid (-requiring) cell. [2]
The genus contains: [2]