Croceitalea

Croceitalea is a genus in the phylum Bacteroidota (Bacteria).^[2]

Croceitalea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Bacteroidota
Class:	Flavobacteriia
Order:	Flavobacteriales
Family:	Flavobacteriaceae
Genus:	Croceitalea Lee et al. 2008[1]
Type species
C. eckloniae

Etymology

The name Croceitalea derives from:
Latin adjective croceus, saffron-coloured, yellow, golden; Latin feminine gender noun talea, a slender staff, rod, stick; Neo-Latin feminine gender noun Croceitalea, a rod forming yellow-orange colonies.^[3]

Species

The genus contains 2 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely^[3]

• C. dokdonensis ( Lee et al. 2008, (Type species of the genus).; Neo-Latin feminine gender adjective dokdonensis, pertaining to Dokdo, the Korean island from where the type strain was isolated.)^[1]
• C. eckloniae ( Lee et al. 2008, (Type species of the genus).; Neo-Latin feminine gender noun Ecklonia, scientific genus name of a marine alga; Neo-Latin genitive case noun eckloniae, of Ecklonia, referring to the isolation of the type strain from Ecklonia kurome.)^[1]
• C. litorea (Kim et al. 2015)^[4]
• C. marina (Su et al. 2017)^[4]

See also

• Bacterial taxonomy
• Microbiology