Acidiplasma
Genus of archaea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Acidiplasma is a genus in the phylum Euryarchaeota (Archaea).[1]
| Acidiplasma | |
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| 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 | |
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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]
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