Aidingimonas Explained

Aidingimonas is a genus in the phylum Pseudomonadota (Bacteria).

Etymology

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.

Members of the genus Aidingimonas can be referred to as aidingimonads (viz. Trivialisation of names).

Species

The genus contains a single species, namely A. halophila (Wang et al. 2009, type species of the genus); hals, halos (ἅλς, ἁλός), salt; and phila philē (φίλη)), friend, loving; thus halophila, salt-loving).^[1]

See also

• Bacterial taxonomy
• Microbiology

Notes and References

1. Wang . Y. . Tang . S. -K. . Lou . K. . Lee . J. -C. . Jeon . C. O. . Xu . L. -H. . Kim . C. -J. . Li . W. -J. . Aidingimonas halophila gen. Nov., sp. Nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a salt lake . International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology . 59 . 12 . 3088–3094 . 2009 . 10.1099/ijs.0.010264-0 . 19643876. free .