Cucumibacter

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic_taxobox | taxon = Cucumibacter | authority = Hwang and Cho 2008<ref name="doi10.1099/ijs.0.65587-0"/> | type_species = C. marinus | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = ''C. marinus'' }}

'''''Cucumibacter''''' is a genus in the phylum Pseudomonadota (Bacteria).<ref>{{lpsn|classificationac.html|Classification of Genera AC}}</ref>

==Etymology== The name ''Cucumibacter'' derives from:<br/>Latin noun ''cucumis'', cucumber; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun, a rod''bacter'', nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, rod; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun ''Cucumibacter'', a cucumber-like rod.<ref name=main>{{lpsn|c/cucumibacter.html|Cucumibacter}}</ref>

==Species== The genus contains a single species,<ref name=main/> namely ''C. marinus'' ( Hwang and Cho 2008, (Type species of the genus).; Latin masculine gender adjective ''marinus'', referring to the sea, from where the type strain was isolated.)<ref name="doi10.1099/ijs.0.65587-0">{{Cite journal | last1 = Hwang | first1 = C. Y. | last2 = Cho | first2 = B. C. | journal = International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | volume = 58 | issue = 7 | pages = 1591–1597 | year = 2008 | doi =10.1099/ijs.0.65587-0 | title = ''Cucumibacter marinus'' gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium in the family Hyphomicrobiaceae | pmid=18599700| doi-access = free }}</ref>

==See also== * Bacterial taxonomy * Microbiology

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Category:Bacteria genera Category:Hyphomicrobiales Category:Monotypic bacteria genera