Acetohalobium
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- phylum
- Firmicutes
- class
- Clostridia
- order
- Halanaerobiales
- family
- Halobacteroidaceae
- genus
- Acetohalobium
Abstract
Acetohalobium is a genus in the phylum Bacillota (Bacteria).
Etymology
The name Acetohalobium derives from: Latin acetum, vinegar; Greek noun hals (ἅλς), salt; Greek bios (βίος), life; giving Acetohalobium, acetate-producing organism living in salt.
Species
The genus contains a single species, namely A. arabaticum ( Zhilina and Zavarzin 1990), type species of the genus; Latin arabaticum, from Arabat, a peninsula between the Sea of Azov and Sivash.
Name
- Homonyms
- Acetohalobium