''Actinocatenispora'' is a genus in the phylum
Actinomycetota
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Bacteria
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).
Etymology
The name ''Actinocatenispora'' derives from
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 ...
noun '' ()'', a beam, ray;
Latin
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noun ', chain;
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 ...
feminine gender noun '' ()'', seed, and in biology a spore; resulting in
New Latin
New Latin (also called Neo-Latin or Modern Latin) is the revival of Literary Latin used in original, scholarly, and scientific works since about 1500. Modern scholarly and technical nomenclature, such as in zoological and botanical taxonomy ...
feminine gender noun ''Actinocatenispora'', spore chain-producing ray (fungus).
Species
The genus comprises the following species:
[
* '' A. comari'' Oyunbileg et al. 2021
* '' A. rupis'' Seo and Lee 2009 (]Latin
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genitive case
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noun ''rupis'', of a cliff, referring to the site from which the type strain was isolated.)
* '' A. sera'' Matsumoto et al. 2007 (Latin
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feminine gender adjective ''sera'', late.)
* '' A. thailandica'' Thawai et al. 2006 (New Latin
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feminine gender adjective ''thailandica'', of or belonging to Thailand, where the type strain was isolated.)
Phylogeny
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature
List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) is an online database that maintains information on the naming and taxonomy of prokaryotes, following the taxonomy requirements and rulings of the International Code of Nomenclature o ...
(LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information
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(NCBI)
and the phylogeny is based on 16S rRNA-based LTP release 123 by The All-Species Living Tree Project
The All-Species Living Tree' Project is a collaboration between various academic groups/institutes, such as ARB, SILVA rRNA database project, and LPSN, with the aim of assembling a database of 16S rRNA sequences of all validly published specie ...
[ All-Species Living Tree Project.]
See also
* Bacterial taxonomy
Bacterial taxonomy is the taxonomy, i.e. the rank-based classification, of bacteria.
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
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References
Bacteria genera
Micromonosporaceae
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