Cucumibacter

C. marinus Cucumibacter is a genus in the phylum Pseudomonadota (Bacteria).

[2] The name Cucumibacter derives from:Latin noun cucumis, cucumber; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun, a rodbacter, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, rod; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun Cucumibacter, a cucumber-like rod.

[3] The genus contains a single species,[3] namely C. marinus ( Hwang and Cho 2008, (Type species of the genus).

; Latin masculine gender adjective marinus, referring to the sea, from where the type strain was isolated.

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