| Aidingimonas | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Oceanospirillales |
| Family: | Halomonadaceae |
| Genus: | Aidingimonas Wang et al. 2009 |
| Type species | |
| A. halophila | |
Aidingimonas is a genus in the phylum Pseudomonadota (Bacteria). [1]
The name Aidingimonas derives from: Neo-Latin noun Aidingum, Aiding (a lake located in Xinjiang province of north-west China); and monas (μονάς), monad a unit, a monad; Neo-Latin thus Aidingimonas, a monad from Aiding Lake. [2]
Members of the genus Aidingimonas can be referred to as aidingimonads (viz. Trivialisation of names).
The genus contains a single species, [2] namely A. halophila ( Wang et al. 2009, type species of the genus); hals, halos (ἅλς, ἁλός), salt; and philaphilē (φίλη)), friend, loving; thus halophila, salt-loving). [3]