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Aestuariicola

Aestuariicola
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacteroidetes
Class: Flavobacteria
Order: Flavobacteriales
Family: Flavobacteriaceae
Genus: Aestuariicola
Type species
A. saemankumensis

Aestuariicola is a genus in the phylum Bacteroidetes (Bacteria).

The name Aestuariicola derives from:
Latin noun aestuarium, part of the coast that overflows with seawater during a flood-tide and is left covered with mud or slime at ebb-tide, a tidal flat; Latin suff. -cola (from Latin noun incola), a dweller, inhabitant; New Latin masculine gender noun Aestuariicola, a dweller in a tidal flat.

The genus contains a single species, namely A. saemankumensis ( Yoon et al. 2008, (Type species of the genus).; New Latin masculine gender adjective saemankumensis, of Saemankum, from where the organism was isolated.)



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