Algibacter

Algibacter is a genus in the phylum Bacteroidota (Bacteria).^[1]

Algibacter
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Bacteroidota
Class:	Flavobacteriia
Order:	Flavobacteriales
Family:	Flavobacteriaceae
Genus:	Algibacter Nedashkovskaya et al. 2004
Type species
Algibacter lectus Nedashkovskaya et al. 2004

Etymology

The name Algibacter derives from:
Latin feminine gender noun alga, seaweed; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun, a rodbacter, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, rod; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun Algibacter, rod isolated from seaweed.^[2]

Species

The genus contains 15 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely^[2]

• Algibacter aestuarii^[3]
• Algibacter agarilyticus^[3]
• Algibacter agarivorans^[3]
• Algibacter alginicilyticus^[3]
• Algibacter amylolyticus^[3]
• Algibacter aquimarinus^[3]
• Algibacter lectus (Nedashkovskaya et al. 2004, (Type species of the genus).; Latin masculine gender adjective lectus, chosen, selected, referring to a bacterium that forms select, beautiful colonies.)^[4]
• Algibacter marinivivus^[3]
• Algibacter mikhailovii (Nedashkovskaya et al. 2007; Neo-Latin masculine gender genitive case noun mikhailovii, of Mikhailov, in honour of Valery V. Mikhailov, a Russian microbiologist, for his contributions to the development of marine microbiology.)^[5]
• Algibacter miyuki^[3]
• Algibacter onchidii^[3]
• Algibacter pacificus^[3]
• Algibacter pectinivorans^[3]
• Algibacter psychrophilus^[3]
• Algibacter undariae^[3]