Actinocorallia is a genus in the phylum Actinomycetota (Bacteria).^[1]

Etymology

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]

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[1] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)^[2]

Species

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^[9]
• A. aurea Tamura et al. 2007; Latin feminine gender adjective aurea, golden, formerly known as "Sarraceniospora aurea"^[10]
• A. cavernae Lee 2006; Latin genitive case noun cavernae, of a cavern, was isolated from a cave in Jeju, Korea^[11]
• 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^[9]
• 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.^[12]
• 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^[9]
• 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.^[9]
• "A. spatholoba" Chen et al. 2007a

See also

• Bacterial taxonomy
• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera
• Microbiology

References