Actinocorallia
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| Actinocorallia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Actinomycetota |
| Class: | Actinomycetes |
| Order: | Streptosporangiales |
| Family: | Thermomonosporaceae |
| Genus: | Actinocorallia Iinuma et al. 1994 em. Zhang et al. 2001[1] |
| Type species | |
| Actinocorallia herbida Iinuma et al. 1994 | |
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| Synonyms | |
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Actinocorallia is a genus in the phylum Actinomycetota (Bacteria).[1]
The name Actinocorallia derives from:
Greek noun 'aktis, aktinos (ἀκτίς, ἀκτῖνος), a beam; Latin noun corallium, coral; Neo-Latin feminine gender noun Actinocorallia, meaning an actinomycete microorganism that forms sporophores resembling coral.[1]
The genus contains 10 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely[1]
- A. aurantiaca (Lavrova and Preobrazhenskaya 1975) Zhang et al. 2001; Neo-Latin feminine gender adjective aurantiaca, orange-coloured, referring to the gold-colored substrate mycelium, was formerly known as Actinomadura aurantiaca[3]
- A. aurea Tamura et al. 2007; Latin feminine gender adjective aurea, golden, formerly known as "Sarraceniospora aurea"[4]
- A. cavernae Lee 2006; Latin genitive case noun cavernae, of a cavern, was isolated from a cave in Jeju, Korea[5]
- A. glomerata (Itoh et al. 1996) Zhang et al. 2001; Latin feminine gender participle adjective glomerata, (from Latin v. glomerare, to form into ball, glomerate), formerly known as Actinomadura glomerata[3]
- A. herbida Iinuma et al. 1994 (Type species of the genus); Latin feminine gender adjective herbida, like grass, grassy, referring to the formation of aerial mycelia like grass.[6]
- A. libanotica (Meyer 1981) Zhang et al. 2001; Latin noun Libanus, Lebanon; Latin feminine gender suff. -tica, suff. denoting made of or belonging to; Neo-Latin feminine gender adjective libanotica, belonging to Lebanon (the country in which the soil sample was taken), was formerly known as Actinomadura libanotica[3]
- A. longicatena (Itoh et al. 1996) Zhang et al. 2001; Latin adjective longus, long; Latin feminine gender noun catena, chain; Neo-Latin feminine gender noun longicatena, a long chain.[3]
- "A. spatholoba" Chen et al. 2007a