Alkalimonas

Alkalimonas
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	incertae sedis
Family:	incertae sedis
Genus:	Alkalimonas
Type species
Alkalimonas amylolytica

Alkalimonas is a genus in the phylum Pseudomonadota (Bacteria). ^[1]

Etymology

The name Alkalimonas derives from:

Neo-Latin noun alkali (from Arabic al-qaliy), ashes of salt wort; Greek feminine gender noun monas (μονάς) , nominally meaning "a unit", but in effect meaning a bacterium; Neo-Latin feminine gender noun Alkalimonas, alkaline monad. ^[2]

Members of the genus Alkalimonas can be referred to as alkalimonads (viz. Trivialisation of names).

Species

The genus contains 3 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely ^[2]

• A. amylolytica ( Ma et al. 2007, (Type species of the genus).;: Greek noun amulon, starch; Neo-Latin adjective lyticus -a -um (from Greek adjective lutikos (λυτικός) -ē -on), able to loose, able to dissolve; Neo-Latin feminine gender adjective amylolytica, starch dissolving.) ^[3]
• A. collagenimarina ( Kurata et al. 2007, ; Neo-Latin noun collagenum, collagen; Latin adjective marinus -a -um, of the sea, marine; Neo-Latin feminine gender adjective collagenimarina, collagenolytic bacterium isolated from the sea.) ^[4]
• A. delamerensis ( Ma et al. 2007, ;: Neo-Latin feminine gender adjective delamerensis, pertaining to Delamere estates, which include Lake Elmenteita (the source of the type strain), Kenya.) ^[3]

See also

• 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. Alkalimonas 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. Oren, A.; Garrity, G. M. (2007). "List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 57 (3): 433–434. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.65052-0. PMC   5817221 . PMID   28891789.
4. Kurata, A.; Miyazaki, M.; Kobayashi, T.; Nogi, Y.; Horikoshi, K. (2007). "Alkalimonas collagenimarina sp. Nov., a psychrotolerant, obligate alkaliphile isolated from deep-sea sediment". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 57 (7): 1549–1553. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.65084-0. PMID   17625192.