Actinophytocola
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Actinomycetota
Class:	Actinomycetia
Order:	Pseudonocardiales
Family:	Pseudonocardiaceae
Genus:	Actinophytocola Indananda et al. 2010[1]
Type species
Actinophytocola oryzae Indananda et al. 2010
Species
See text.

Actinophytocola is a genus in the phylum Actinomycetota (Bacteria).

Etymology

The name Actinophytocola derives from the Greek noun actis or actinos, a ray, beam; Greek noun phyton, plant; Latin masculine gender suff. -cola (from Latin noun incola), a dweller, inhabitant; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun Actinophytocola, actinobacterial dweller inside a plant.^[2]

Species

The genus contains 10 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely^[2]

• A. algeriensis Bouznada et al. 2016^[3]
• A. burenkhanensis (Ara et al. 2011; Neo-Latin masculine gender adjective burenkhanensis, of or belonging to Burenkhan, isolated from soil of Burenkhan, Khuvsgul province, Mongolia.)^[4]
• A. corallina (Otoguro et al. 2011; Latin feminine gender adjective corallina, coral red, because the organism produces coral-coloured soluble pigment.)^[5]
• A. gilvus Sun et al. 2014^[3]
• A. glycyrrhizae Cao et al. 2018^[6]
• A. oryzae (Indananda et al. 2010, (Type species of the genus).; Latin noun oryza, rice and also the name of a botanical genus; Latin genitive case noun oryzae, of rice, denoting the isolation of the type strain from roots of Thai glutinous rice plants.)^[1]
• A. sediminis Zhang et al. 2014^[3]
• A. timorensis (Otoguro et al. 2011; Neo-Latin feminine gender adjective timorensis, of or pertaining to (West) Timor, Indonesia, from where the type strain was isolated.)^[5]
• A. xanthii Wang et al. 2017^[3]
• A. xinjiangensis Guo et al. 2011^[3]

See also

• Bacterial taxonomy
• Microbiology

References