Algicola Explained

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

Etymology

The name Algicola derives from Latin alga, a seaweed, and cola or incola, an inhabitant or dweller; Algicola, then, means inhabitant of algae.

Species

The genus contains two species:

• Algicola bacteriolytica Sawabe et al. 1998. Ivanova et al. 2004 (type species of the genus); bacterium, rod or staff and lytica (from Greek lutikē, able to loosen, able to dissolve, to give bacteriolytica, bacteria-dissolving^[1]
• Algicola sagamiensis Kobayashi et al. 2003, Nam et al. 2007, sagamiensis, referring to Sagami Bay, the place of isolation^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Phylogenetic relationships among marine Alteromonas-like proteobacteria: emended description of the family Alteromonadaceae and proposal of Pseudoalteromonadaceae fam. nov., Colwelliaceae fam. nov., Shewanellaceae fam. nov., Moritellaceae fam. nov., Ferrimonadaceae fam. nov., Idiomarinaceae fam. nov. and Psychromonadaceae fam. nov . Ijs.sgmjournals.org . 2013-06-24 . 2014-01-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100306164133/http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/54/5/1773 . 2010-03-06 . dead .
2. Nam . Y. -D. . Chang . H. -W. . Park . J. R. . Kwon . H. -Y. . Quan . Z. -X. . Park . Y. -H. . Lee . J. -S. . Yoon . J. -H. . Bae . J. -W. . Pseudoalteromonas marina sp. Nov., a marine bacterium isolated from tidal flats of the Yellow Sea, and reclassification of Pseudoalteromonas sagamiensis as Algicola sagamiensis comb. Nov . International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology . 57 . Pt 1 . 12–18 . 2007 . 17220433 . 10.1099/ijs.0.64523-0. free .