Cucumibacter Explained

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

Etymology

The name Cucumibacter derives from:
Latin noun cucumis, cucumber; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun, a rodbacter, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, rod; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun Cucumibacter, a cucumber-like rod.

Species

The genus contains a single species, namely C. marinus (Hwang and Cho 2008, (Type species of the genus).; Latin masculine gender adjective marinus, referring to the sea, from where the type strain was isolated.)^[1]

See also

• Bacterial taxonomy
• Microbiology

Notes and References

1. Hwang . C. Y. . Cho . B. C. . International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology . 58 . 7 . 1591–1597 . 2008 . 10.1099/ijs.0.65587-0 . Cucumibacter marinus gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium in the family Hyphomicrobiaceae . 18599700. free .