''Actinoalloteichus'' is a genus in the phylum
Actinomycetota
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Bacteria
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Etymology
The name ''Actinoalloteichus'' derives from the
Greek
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noun or , ray (used to refer to actinomycetes);
Greek
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*Greeks, an ethnic group.
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adjective , another, the other;
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
masculine gender noun , wall;
New Latin
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masculine gender noun ''Actinoalloteichus'', actinomycete with a different wall.
Species
The genus contains four species:
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* '' A. caeruleus'' (Baldacci 1944) Teo et al. 2021
* "'' A. fjordicus''" Nouioui et al. 2017
* '' A. hoggarensis'' Boudjelal et al. 2015
* '' A. hymeniacidonis'' Zhang ''et al''. 2006 (]New Latin
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genitive case noun ''hymeniacidonis'', of ''Hymeniacidon'', the generic name of the marine sponge ''Hymeniacidon'' ''perleve'', the source of the type strain.)
* '' A. nanshanensis'' Xiang ''et al''. 2011 (New Latin
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masculine gender adjective ''nanshanensis'', of or pertaining to the Nanshan Temple in Guangxi Province in south China, from where the sample was collected.)
* '' A. spitiensis'' Singla ''et al''. 2005 (New Latin
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masculine gender adjective ''spitiensis'', pertaining to Spiti Valley, located in the Indian Himalayas, where the type strain was isolated.)
See also
* Bacterial taxonomy
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In the scientific classification established by Carl Linnaeus, each species has to be assigned to a genus ( binary nomenclature), which in turn is a lower lev ...
* Microbiology
References
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Bacteria genera
Pseudonocardiales