Acidiplasma

{{Short description|Genus of archaea}}

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{{Automatic_taxobox

| taxon = Acidiplasma

| authority = Golyshina et al. 2009

| type_species = Acidiplasma aeolica

| type_species_authority = Golyshina et al. 2009

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

  • A. aeolica
  • A. cupricumulans

}}

Acidiplasma is a genus in the phylum Euryarchaeota (Archaea).{{lpsn|classificationac.html|Classification of Genera AC}}

Etymology

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.{{lpsn|a/acidiplasma.html|Acidiplasma}}

Species

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

  • A. aeolica 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.){{Cite journal | last1 = Golyshina | first1 = O. V. | last2 = Yakimov | first2 = M. M. | last3 = Lunsdorf | first3 = H. | last4 = Ferrer | first4 = M. | last5 = Nimtz | first5 = M. | last6 = Timmis | first6 = K. N. | last7 = Wray | first7 = V. | last8 = Tindall | first8 = B. J. | last9 = Golyshin | first9 = P. N. | title = 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 | journal = International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | volume = 59 | issue = 11 | pages = 2815–2823 | date = 2009 | doi = 10.1099/ijs.0.009639-0 | pmid=19628615| doi-access = free | hdl = 10033/90258 | hdl-access = free }}
  • 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.)

See also

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