Anaerobranca

Anaerobranca
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Clostridia
Order:	Syntrophomonadales
Family:	Syntrophomonadaceae
Genus:	Anaerobranca Engle et al. 1995
Type species
Anaerobranca horikoshii Engle et al. 1995

Anaerobranca is a genus in the phylum Bacillota (Bacteria).

Etymology

The name Anaerobranca derives from:Greek prefix an (ἄν), not; Greek noun aer, aeros (ἀήρ, ἀέρος), air; New Latin feminine gender noun branca, claw, paw, the root of the English word branch, an arm-like part diverging from a main axis; New Latin feminine gender noun Anaerobranca, referring to the branched cell shape of the obligately anaerobic bacterium.

Species

The genus contains 4 species, namely

• Anaerobranca californiensis ( Gorlenko et al. 2004, ; New Latin feminine gender adjective californiensis, pertaining to California, the location of the hot spring from which the micro-organism was isolated.)
• Anaerobranca gottschalkii ( Prowe and Antranikian 2001, ; New Latin genitive case noun gottschalkii, of Gottschalk, named after Gerhard Gottschalk, in recognition of his pioneering contributions to our knowledge of the physiology and metabolism of anaerobes.)
• Anaerobranca horikoshii ( Engle et al. 1995, (Type species of the genus).; New Latin genitive case noun horikoshii, of Horikoshi, in honor of Koki Horikoshi, a pioneer in the study of the microbiology of alkaliphilic bacteria.)
• Anaerobranca zavarzinii ( Kevbrin et al. 2008, ; New Latin masculine gender genitive case noun zavarzinii, of Zavarzin, named after the Russian microbiologist George Zavarzin, in recognition of his seminal contributions to the knowledge of alkaliphilic micro-organisms and their ecology.)