Actinocorallia is a genus in the phylum Actinomycetota (Bacteria).
Etymology The name Actinocorallia derives from:Greek noun ' (), a beam; Latin noun corallium, coral; Neo-Latin feminine gender noun Actinocorallia, meaning an actinomycete microorganism that forms sporophores resembling coral.
The genus contains 10 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely 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 A. aurea Tamura et al. 2007; Latin feminine gender adjective aurea, golden, formerly known as "Sarraceniospora aurea" A. cavernae Lee 2006; Latin genitive case noun cavernae, of a cavern, was isolated from a cave in Jeju, Korea 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 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. 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 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. "A. spatholoba" Chen et al. 2007a
Phylogeny The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024 120 marker proteins based GTDB 10-RS226
See also List of bacterial orders List of bacteria genera
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