Actinocorallia

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

Actinocorallia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Actinobacteria
Class:	Actinobacteria
Subclass:	Actinobacteridae
Order:	Actinomycetales
Suborder:	Streptosporangineae
Family:	Thermomonosporaceae
Genus:	Actinocorallia
Type species
A. herbida

Etymology

The name Actinocorallia derives from:
Greek noun 'aktis, aktinos (ἀκτίς, ἀκτῖνος), a beam; Latin noun corallium, coral; New Latin feminine gender noun Actinocorallia, meaning an actinomycete microorganism that forms sporophores resembling coral.[2]

Species

The genus contains 7 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely[2]

• A. aurantiaca ( (Lavrova and Preobrazhenskaya 1975) Zhang 'et al.'. 2001; New 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), formed into a ball, glomerated.), 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; New 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; New Latin feminine gender noun longicatena, a long chain.)[3]

See also

• Bacterial taxonomy
• Microbiology

References

1. Classification of Genera AC entry in LPSN [Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 47 (2): 590–2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. PMID 9103655.]
2. Actinocorallia entry in LPSN [Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 47 (2): 590–2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. PMID 9103655.]
3. Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (2008). "Status of strains that contravene Rules 27 (3) and 30 of the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria. Opinion 81". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 58 (7): 1755–1763. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.2008/005264-0. PMID 18599730.
4. Tamura, T.; Hatano, K.; Suzuki, K. -I. (2007). "Classification of 'Sarraceniospora aurea' Furihata et al. 1989 as Actinocorallia aurea sp. Nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 57 (9): 2052–2055. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64008-0. PMID 17766870.
5. Lee, S. D. (2006). "Actinocorallia cavernae sp. Nov., isolated from a natural cave in Jeju, Korea". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 56 (5): 1085–1088. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63895-0. PMID 16627659.
6. Iinuma, S.; Yokota, A.; Hasegawa, T.; Kanamaru, T. (1994). "Actinocorallia gen. Nov., a New Genus of the Order Actinomycetales". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 44 (2): 230. doi:10.1099/00207713-44-2-230.