The name Aidingimonas derives from:
Neo-Latin noun Aidingum, Aiding (a lake located in Xinjiang province of north-west China); and
monas (μονάς), monad a unit, a monad;
Neo-Latin thus Aidingimonas, a monad from Aiding Lake.[2]
Members of the genus Aidingimonas can be referred to as aidingimonads (viz.Trivialisation of names).
Species
The genus contains a single species,[2] namely A. halophila ( Wang et al. 2009, type species of the genus); hals, halos (ἅλς, ἁλός), salt; and philaphilē (φίλη)), friend, loving; thus halophila, salt-loving).[3]