Alishewanella

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Alishewanella is a genus of bacteria in the Alteromonadaceae family.

taxonomy
- Domain: Bacteria
- Phylum: Pseudomonadota
- Class: Gammaproteobacteria
- Order: Alteromonadales
- Family: Alteromonadaceae
- Genus: Alishewanella

name origin
The name combines the Latin alius (other/different) and Shewanella (a related bacterial genus), meaning “the other Shewanella.”

type species
Alishewanella fetalis is the type species.

species count
There are seven recognized species in this genus.

history
Alishewanella was first described by Fonnesbech Vogel and colleagues in 2000, with an emended description by Kim and colleagues in 2009.