Microbulbifer

Microbulbifer is a genus of Proteobacteria found in high-salt environments. Members of this genus can degrade complex carbohydrates such as cellulose, alginate, and chitin. Recently, Microbulbifer degredans was renamed Saccharophagus degredans.[3]

Microbulbifer
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Proteobacteria
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Alteromonadales
Family:	Alteromonadaceae
Genus:	Microbulbifer González et al. 1997
Type species
Microbulbifer hydrolyticus
Species
M. aestuariivivens[1] M. agarilyticus M. celer M. chitinlyticus M. elongatus M. echini [2] M. elongatus M. epialgicus M. gwangyangensis M. halophilus M. hydrolyticus M. mangrovi M. marinus M. maritimus M. okinawensis M. pacificus M. rhizosphaerae M. salipaludis M. taiwanensis M. thermotolerans M. varibilis M. yueqingensis

Etymology

Microbulbifer (Mi.cro. bul’bi.fer. Gr. adj. micro, small; L. m. n. bulbus, onion, bulb; L. suff. -fer, carrying, bearing; L. m. n. Microbulbifer, small bearer of bulbs).[4]

References

1. "Microbulbifer". LPSN.
2. Lee, June-Young; Kim, Pil Soo; Hyun, Dong-Wook; Kim, Hyun Sik; Shin, Na-Ri; Jung, Mi-Ja; Yun, Ji-Hyun; Kim, Min-Soo; Whon, Tae Woong; Bae, Jin-Woo (1 April 2017). "Microbulbifer echini sp. nov., isolated from the gastrointestinal tract of a purple sea urchin, Heliocidaris crassispina". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 67 (4): 998–1004. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.001731. PMID 27959777.
3. Ekborg, Nathan A.; Gonzalez, Jose M.; Howard, Michael B.; Taylor, Larry E.; Hutcheson, Steven W.; Weiner, Ronald M. (2005-01-01). "Saccharophagus degradans gen. nov., sp. nov., a versatile marine degrader of complex polysaccharides". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 55 (4): 1545–1549. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63627-0. PMID 16014479.
4. González, J. M.; Mayer, F.; Moran, M. A.; Hodson, R. E.; Whitman, W. B. (1997-04-01). "Microbulbifer hydrolyticus gen. nov., sp. nov., and Marinobacterium georgiense gen. nov., sp. nov., two marine bacteria from a lignin-rich pulp mill waste enrichment community". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 47 (2): 369–376. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-369. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9103623.