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Several Bacterial species are named after graecoroman mythical figures. The rules present for species named after a famous person do not apply, although some names are changed in the female nominative case, either by changing the ending to -a or to the diminutive -ella, depending on the name.〔Help! Latin! How to avoid the most common mistakes while giving Latin names to newly discovered prokaryotes. Microbiología (Sociedad Española de Microbiología), 1996, 12, 473-475. http://www.bacterio.cict.fr/trueper.html〕 * Acidianus and Janibacter: Janus, a god in Roman mythology with two faces. * Amphritea: Amphitrite ('Αμφιτρίτη), a sea-goddess and wife of Poseidon in Greek mythology and one of the 50 daughters of Nereus and Doris. * Breoghania: Breogán, the first mythical Celtic king of Gallaecia in Celtic mythology. * Chimaereicella: Chimaera (Χίμαιρα), a Greek mythological monstrous fire-breathing female creature with the fore part a lion, in the hinder a serpent, and in the middle a goat. * Cronobacter: Cronos (Κρόνος), in Greco-Roman mythology leader of the Titans who swallowed each of his children as soon as they were born, excluding Zeus. * Demetria (genus): Demeter, the Greek goddess of harvest. * Ekhidna (genus): Echidna (Ἔχιδνα), a slimy woman/snake sea creature in Greek mythology. * Eudoraea: Eudora (Εὐδώρα), one of the Hyades in Greek mythology * Haliea: Halie (Ἁλίη), a sea nymph, also one of the 50 daughters of Nereus and Doris. * Hellea: Helle (Ἕλλη), a Greek sea goddess. * Melitea: Melite (Μελίτη), one of the naiads, daughter of the river god Aegaeus, and one of the many loves of Zeus and his son Heracles. Her son was Hylas. * Neptuniibacter and Neptunomonas: Neptunius, the Roman god of the sea, equivalent of the Greek Poseidon. * Nereida: A Nereid, which are sea nymphs daughters of Nereus. * Nisaea (genus): Nicaea, a sea nymph and daughter of the river-god Sangarius and Cybele. * Opitutus: Ops, a Roman Earth and harvest goddess married to Saturn. Equivalent of the Greek Rhea. * Pandoraea: Pandora (Πανδώρα), the first woman who opened a jar, known as Pandora's box releasing evil into the world, in Greek mythology. * Persephonella: Persephone (also known as Kore), is the daughter of Zeus and the harvest goddess Demeter, and queen of the underworld; she was abducted by Hades the king of the underworld. * Pilimelia: Meliae (Μελίαι) were nymphs of the ash tree. Melia, one of them, was daughter of Oceanus and lover of her brother the river-god Inachus. * Proteus and Thermoproteus: Proteus (Πρωτεύς), an early sea-god able to change himself into different shapes. * Telluria: Tellus, a Roman goddess personifying the Earth. * Vampirovibrio: A vampire, mythological beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of other creatures. * Vulcanibacillus, Vulcanisaeta and Vulcanithermus: Vulcanus, the Roman god of fire. == See also == * List of bacterial genera named after geographical names * List of bacterial genera named after institutions * List of bacterial genera named after personal names * list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names * List of Bacteria genera * List of bacterial orders * List of sequenced prokaryotic genomes * List of clinically important bacteria * List of sequenced archaeal genomes * List of Archaea genera * Synonym (taxonomy) * Taxonomy * LPSN, list of accepted bacterial and archaeal names 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of bacterial genera named after mythological figures」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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