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Alkaliflexus

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Domain
  
Bacteria

Family
  
Marinilabiliaceae

Rank
  
Genus

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Class
  
Bacteroidia

Phylum
  
Bacteroidetes

Order
  
Bacteroidales

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

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Etymology

The name Alkaliflexus derives from:
New Latin noun alkali (from Arabic al-qalyi, the ashes of saltwort), soda ash; Latin participle adjective flexus, bent; New Latin masculine gender noun Alkaliflexus, referring to life in basic surroundings and to bending/flexible cells.

Species

The genus contains a single species, namely A. imshenetskii ( Zhilina et al. 2005, (Type species of the genus).; New Latin genitive case masculine gender noun imshenetskii, of Imshenetskii, named after Aleksandr A. Imshenetskii (1905–1992), a microbiologist who devoted much of his research to the microbial degradation of cellulose, and gliding bacteria.)

References

Alkaliflexus Wikipedia