Acidisoma

Acidisoma
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	"Proteobacteria"
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Rhodospirillales
Family:	Acetobacteraceae
Genus:	Acidisoma
Type species
A. tundrae

Acidisoma is a genus in the phylum Proteobacteria (Bacteria). It contains two species, Acidisoma tundrae and Acidisoma sibiricum, both two acidophilic (pH 3.0–7.6) and psychrotolerant (2–30 °C) bacteria with poly-β-hydroxybutyrate granules, isolated from acidic Sphagnum-dominated tundra and Siberian wetlands in Russia.

The name Acidisoma derives from:
New Latin noun acidum (from Latin adjective acidus -a -um, sour, tart, acid), an acid; Greek neuter gender noun soma (σῶμα), body; New Latin neuter gender noun Acidisoma, an acid (-requiring) body.

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