Dehalobacter

Dehalobacter
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: "Firmicutes"
Class: Clostridia
Order: Clostridiales
Family: Peptococcaceae
Genus: Dehalobacter
Type species
D. restrictus

Dehalobacter is a genus in the phylum Firmicutes (Bacteria).[1]

Etymology

The name Dehalobacter derives from:
Latin pref. de, from; New Latin noun halogenum [from Swedish, coined by Swedish chemist Baron Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848) from Greek hals halos "salt" + -gen "to produce;" so called because a salt is formed in reactions involving these elements), halogen; New Latin masculine gender noun, a rodbacter, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, a rod; New Latin masculine gender noun Dehalobacter, a halogen-removing rod-shaped bacterium.[2]

Species

The genus contains a single species,[2] namely D. restrictus ( Holliger et al. 1998, (Type species of the genus).; Latin masculine gender adjective restrictus, limited, restricted, confined, referring to the limited substrate range utilized.)[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Classification of Genera DL entry in LPSN [Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". Int J Syst Bacteriol 47 (2): 590–2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9103655.]
  2. 1 2 Dehalobacter entry in LPSN [Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". Int J Syst Bacteriol 47 (2): 590–2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9103655.]
  3. ↑ Holliger, C.; Hahn, D.; Harmsen, H.; Ludwig, W.; Schumacher, W.; Tindall, B.; Vazquez, F.; Weiss, N.; Zehnder, A. J. B. (1998). "Dehalobacter restrictus gen. Nov. And sp. Nov., a strictly anaerobic bacterium that reductively dechlorinates tetra- and trichloroethene in an anaerobic respiration". Archives of Microbiology 169 (4): 313–321. doi:10.1007/s002030050577. PMID 9531632.
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