List of bacterial genera named after geographical names
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Several Bacterial species are named after geographical locations.
For the generic epithet, all names derived from people or places (unless in combination) must be in the female nominative case, either by changing the ending to -a or to the diminutive -ella, depending on the name. If a Latin word for the locality exists that should be used ignoring geopolitical differences, e.g. Sina for China.
For the generic epithet, all names derived from people or places (unless in combination) must be in the female nominative case, either by changing the ending to -a or to the diminutive -ella, depending on the name. If a Latin word for the locality exists that should be used ignoring geopolitical differences, e.g. Sina for China.
- AegyptianellaAegyptianellaAegyptianella is a genus in the phylum Proteobacteria .-Etymology:The name Aegyptianella derives from:New Latin feminine gender dim. noun Aegyptianella , named after Egypt where the organism was described .-Species:The genus contains a single species, namely A...
: Aegyptus (the Latin name of EgyptEgyptEgypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
) - AidingimonasAidingimonasAidingimonas is a genus in the phylum Proteobacteria .-Etymology:The name Aidingimonas derives from:New Latin noun Aidingum, Aiding ; Latin feminine gender noun monas , monad a unit, a monad; New Latin feminine gender noun Aidingimonas, a monad from Aiding Lake.Members of the genus...
: Ayding Lake (Xinjiang province of north-west China) - AntarctobacterAntarctobacterIn taxonomy, Antarctobacter is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.-External links:...
: Antarctica - Balneola: Balneola (the medieval Latin name of BanyulsBanyuls-sur-MerBanyuls-sur-Mer is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.-Geography:Banyuls-sur-Mer is neighbored by Cerbère, Port-Vendres, Argelès-sur-Mer and Collioure. The region is known for its wines, such as the sweet wine Banyuls. An aquatic museum with aquarium is located in...
, France) - Bavariicoccus: BavariaBavariaBavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
(Germany) - Beutenbergia: Beutenberg (Germany)
- BogoriellaBogoriellaBogoriella is a genus of fungi in the family Verrucariaceae; according to the 2007 Outline of Ascomycota, the placement in this family is uncertain. A monotypic genus, it contains the single species Bogoriella subpersicina....
: Lake BogoriaLake BogoriaLake Bogoria is a saline, alkaline lake that lies in a volcanic region in a half-graben basin south of Lake Baringo, Kenya, a little north of the equator. Lake Bogoria, like Lake Nakuru, Lake Elmenteita, and Lake Magadi further south in the Rift Valley, and Lake Logipi to the north, is home at...
(Kenya) - Brooklawnia: Brooklawn (the contaminated site from which members of the genus were first isolated)
- Budvicia: Budvicium (the Latin name of the city České BudějoviceCeské BudejoviceČeské Budějovice is a city in the Czech Republic. It is the largest city in the South Bohemian Region and is the political and commercial capital of the region and centre of the Roman Catholic Diocese of České Budějovice and of the University of South Bohemia and the Academy of Sciences...
) - DaeguiaDaeguiaDaeguia is a genus in the phylum Proteobacteria .-Etymology:The name Daeguia derives from:New Latin feminine gender noun Daeguia, pertaining to Daegu, the location of the textile dye works from which the type strain of the type species was isolated.-Species:The genus contains a single species,...
: DaeguDaeguDaegu , also known as Taegu, and officially the Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in South Korea, the fourth largest after Seoul, Busan, and Incheon, and the third largest metropolitan area in the country with over 2.5 million residents. The city is the capital and principal city of the...
(Korea) - DelftiaDelftiaDelftia is a genus of Comamonad bacteria....
: DelftDelftDelft is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland , the Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam and The Hague....
(the Netherlands) - Dokdonella: Dokdo (the Korean name of Liancourt RocksLiancourt RocksThe Liancourt Rocks, also known as Dokdo or Tokto in Korean or in Japanese, are a group of small islets in the Sea of Japan . Sovereignty over the islets is disputed between Japan and South Korea...
) - Dokdonia: Dokdo (the Korean name of Liancourt Rocks)
- Donghaeana: Donghae (the Korean name of the Sea of JapanSea of JapanThe Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, between the Asian mainland, the Japanese archipelago and Sakhalin. It is bordered by Japan, North Korea, Russia and South Korea. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it has almost no tides due to its nearly complete enclosure from the Pacific...
) - Donghicola: Donghae (the Korean name of the Sea of Japan)
- Gallaecimonas: Galicia (region of northwest Spain)
- Gangjinia: Gangjin Bay (Korea Strait, Korea)
- Gelria: Gelre or GelderlandGelderlandGelderland is the largest province of the Netherlands, located in the central eastern part of the country. The capital city is Arnhem. The two other major cities, Nijmegen and Apeldoorn have more inhabitants. Other major regional centers in Gelderland are Ede, Doetinchem, Zutphen, Tiel, Wijchen,...
(one of the 12 provinces in The Netherlands) - Georgenia: St Georgen (a village in Styria)
- Hafnia: Hafnia (the Latin name for CopenhagenCopenhagenCopenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
, Denmark) - HerminiimonasHerminiimonasHerminiimonas is a genus of bacteria in the Oxalobacteraceae family. It contains Beta Proteobacteria that have been isolated from spring and mineral waters. The type species, H. fonticola, was first recovered from the borehole of bottled mineral water in Eastern Portugal....
: Mons Herminius (a mountain range of Lusitania) - Hwanghaeicola: HwanghaeHwanghaeHwanghae was one of the Eight Provinces of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty. Hwanghae was located in the northwest of Korea. The provincial capital was Haeju.The regional name for the province was Haesŏ .-History:...
(a historical Korean province) - Indibacter: IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
- Jejuia: Jeju Island (the largest island in Korea)
- Jeongeupia: JeongeupJeongeupJeongeup is a city in North Jeolla Province, South Korea. The city limits include Naejang-san National Park, a popular destination particularly in autumn due to its foliage...
(Korean city, where Naejang mountain is located) - Kiloniella: Kilonium (the Latin name of the northern German city of KielKielKiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 238,049 .Kiel is approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula, and the southwestern shore of the...
, Germany) - Kinneretia: Kinneret Lake (Israel)
- Koreibacter: KoreaKoreaKorea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
- Lutaonella: Lutao (a small volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean)
- Massilia: Massilia (the Latin name of MarseilleMarseilleMarseille , known in antiquity as Massalia , is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of...
, France) - Mechercharimyces: Mecherchar (a marine lake located on Mecherchar Island in the Republic of Palau)
- Mitsuaria: Matsue City (Shimane prefecture, Japan)
- Nevskia: Neva (a river in St. Petersburg, Russia)
- Okibacterium: Oka RiverOka RiverOka is a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga. It flows through the regions of Oryol, Tula, Kaluga, Moscow, Ryazan, Vladimir, and Nizhny Novgorod and is navigable over a large part of its total length, as far upstream as to the town of Kaluga. Its length exceeds...
(Russia) - OrientiaOrientiaOrientia is a genus of bacteria in family Rickettsiaceae.They are obligate intracellular gram negative bacteria found in insects and mammals. They are spread through the bites or feces of infected insects.One species is Orientia tsutsugamushi....
: The OrientThe OrientThe Orient means "the East." It is a traditional designation for anything that belongs to the Eastern world or the Far East, in relation to Europe. In English it is a metonym that means various parts of Asia.- Derivation :... - PannonibacterPannonibacterIn taxonomy, Pannonibacter is a genus of the Rhodobacteraceae.-External links:...
: PannoniaPannoniaPannonia was an ancient province of the Roman Empire bounded north and east by the Danube, coterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia....
(the Roman province in what is now Hungary), and also Pannon lakes (Hungary) - Phocaeicola: PhocaeaPhocaeaPhocaea, or Phokaia, was an ancient Ionian Greek city on the western coast of Anatolia. Greek colonists from Phocaea founded the colony of Massalia in 600 BC, Emporion in 575 BC and Elea in 540 BC.-Geography:Phocaea was the northernmost...
(a maritime town of Ionia, modern-day Foça in Turkey) - Pragia: PraguePraguePrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
(Czech Republic) - ProvidenciaProvidenciaProvidencia may refer to:* Providencia, Chile* Providencia District in Amazonas, Peru* Providencia Island, part of the San Andrés y Providencia Department district of Colombia in the Caribbean sea...
: ProvidenceProvidenceProvidence may refer to:* Providence, Rhode Island, the capital of Rhode Island* Divine providence, the idea of divinely ordained events and outcomes- Entertainment :* Providence , a French/Swiss film directed by Alain Resnais...
(Rhode Island, U.S.A) - Reinekea: Reineke Island (Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan, Russia)
- Rhodanobacter: Rhodanus (River Rhône)
- Salana: River Saale (Germany)
- Sejongia: King Sejong StationKing Sejong StationThe King Sejong Station is a research station for the Korea Antarctic Research Program, and it is named after King Sejong the Great of Joseon. Established on February 17th, 1988, it consists of 11 facility buildings and two observatories, and it is located on the Barton Peninsula...
(Korea): the strain was isolated form this station which is named after King Sejong of Joseon Dynasty. - Seohaeicola: Seohae (the Korean name of the Yellow SeaYellow SeaThe Yellow Sea is the name given to the northern part of the East China Sea, which is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. It is located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula. Its name comes from the sand particles from Gobi Desert sand storms that turn the surface of the water golden...
) - Sinobaca: Sina (the medieval Latin name of ChinaChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
) - Sinobacter: Sina (the medieval Latin name of China)
- Sinococcus: Sina (the medieval Latin name of China)
- Sinomonas: Sina (the medieval Latin name of China)
- SinorhizobiumSinorhizobiumSinorhizobium/Ensifer is a genus of nitrogen-fixing bacteria , two of which have been sequenced.-Etymology:...
: Sina (the medieval Latin name of China) - Sinosporangium: Sina (the medieval Latin name of China)
- StygiolobusStygiolobusIn taxonomy, Stygiolobus is a genus of the Sulfolobaceae.-External links:...
: River Styx (a river in Greek mythology which formed the boundary between Earth and the Underworld) - TamlanaTamlanaTamlana is a genus in the phylum Bacteroidetes . Two species have been described so far: T. agarivorans and T. crocina.As all members of the Bacteroidetes they are Gram negative.'...
: Tamla (the old name for Jeju Island, Korea) according to the description in the IJSME article - Tateyamaria: Tateyama City (Chiba prefecture, Japan)
- Turicella: Turicum (the Latin name of ZurichZürichZurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...
, Switzerland) - Turicibacter: Turicum (the Latin name of Zurich, Switzerland)
- Victivallis: Referring to the Wageningen 'Food ValleyFood ValleyFood Valley is a region in the Netherlands where international food companies, research institutes and Wageningen University and Research Centre are concentrated. The Food Valley area is the home of a large number of food multinationals and within the Food Valley about 15,000 professionals are...
', an area of The Netherlands in which Food Science is a major research topic - Wandonia: Wando (an island located on the Southern Sea in Korea)
- YeosuanaYeosuanaYeosuana aromativorans is a species of non-motile aerobic marine bacterium that can degrade benzopyrene. It was first isolated from Gwangyang Bay and forms yellow-brown colonies requiring chlorides of both magnesium and calcium....
: Yeosu City (Korea)
See also
- List of bacterial genera named after geographical names
- List of bacterial genera named after institutions
- List of bacterial genera named after personal names
- list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names
- List of Bacteria genera
- List of bacterial orders
- List of sequenced prokaryotic genomes
- List of clinically important bacteria
- List of sequenced archaeal genomes
- List of Archaea genera
- Synonym (taxonomy)Synonym (taxonomy)In scientific nomenclature, a synonym is a scientific name that is or was used for a taxon of organisms that also goes by a different scientific name. For example, Linnaeus was the first to give a scientific name to the Norway spruce, which he called Pinus abies...
- TaxonomyTaxonomyTaxonomy is the science of identifying and naming species, and arranging them into a classification. The field of taxonomy, sometimes referred to as "biological taxonomy", revolves around the description and use of taxonomic units, known as taxa...
- LPSNLPSNList of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature is an online database that maintains and provides accurate name and related information of prokaryotes according to the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria , curated by prof...
, list of accepted bacterial and archaeal names