Wigglesworthia

Translingual

Etymology

From English Wigglesworth (“a surname”) (after British entomologist Vincent Wigglesworth) +‎ -ia.

Proper noun

Wigglesworthia f

A taxonomic genus within the family Enterobacteriaceae – the single species Wigglesworthia glossinidia, a gram-negative bacterium and endosymbiont of tsetse flies.

Hypernyms

(genus): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Negibacteria - subkingdom; Proteobacteria - phylum; Gammaproteobacteria - class; Enterobacteriales - order; Enterobacteriaceae - family

Hyponyms

(genus): Wigglesworthia glossinidia (species)
- Wigglesworthia glossinidia endosymbiont of Glossina brevipalpis (strain)

See also

Glossina

Further reading

Wigglesworthia glossinidia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Wigglesworthia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Wigglesworthia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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