Acidiplasma is a genus in the phylum Euryarchaeota (Archaea).[1]

Acidiplasma
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Acidiplasma

Golyshina et al. 2009
Type species
Acidiplasma aeolicum
Golyshina et al. 2009
Species
  • A. aeolicum
  • A. cupricumulans

Etymology edit

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 edit

The genus contains 2 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely[2]

  • A. aeolicum ( 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]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Classification of Genera AC in LPSN; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004332.
  2. ^ a b Acidiplasma in LPSN; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.004332.
  3. ^ a b Golyshina, O. V.; Yakimov, M. M.; Lunsdorf, H.; Ferrer, M.; Nimtz, M.; Timmis, K. N.; Wray, V.; Tindall, B. J.; Golyshin, P. N. (2009). "Acidiplasma aeolicum gen. Nov., sp. Nov., a euryarchaeon of the family Ferroplasmaceae isolated from a hydrothermal pool, and transfer of Ferroplasma cupricumulans to Acidiplasma cupricumulans comb. Nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 59 (11): 2815–2823. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.009639-0. hdl:10033/90258. PMID 19628615.