Vibrio

== Translingual == === Etymology === Coined by Italian anatomist Filippo Pacini in 1854, from Italian vibrione, from Latin vībro (“to move rapidly to and fro, to shake, to agitate”) +‎ Italian -one (“-er, -or”, nominal suffix). === Proper noun === Vibrio m A taxonomic genus within the family Vibrionaceae – gram-negative bacteria possessing a curved rod shape (comma shape), several species of which can cause foodborne infection. ==== Hypernyms ==== (genus): Prokaryota – superkingdom; Bacteria – kingdom; Negibacteria – subkingdom; Pseudomonadota – phylum; Gammaproteobacteria – class; Enterobacterales – order; Vibrionaceae – family ==== Hyponyms ==== (genus): Vibrio cholerae - type species; Vibrio alginolyticus, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio vulnificus - selected other species ==== Derived terms ==== === References === Vibrio on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Vibrio on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Vibrio on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons Vibrio in the Genome Taxonomy Database