Actinomycetospora

Actinomycetospora
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: "Actinobacteria"
Class: Actinobacteria
Subclass: Actinobacteridae
Order: Actinomycetales
Suborder: Pseudonocardineae
Family: Pseudonocardiaceae
Genus: Actinomycetospora
Type species
A. chiangmaiensis

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

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Etymology

The name Actinomycetospora derives from:
New Latin noun actinomyces -etis (from Greek noun aktis, aktinos (ἀκτίς, ἀκτῖνος), a beam and Greek noun mukēs -ētos, mushroom or other fungus), an actinomycete; Greek feminine gender noun spora (σπορά), a seed and, in biology, a spore; New Latin feminine gender noun Actinomycetospora, referring to an actinomycete with spore chains.[2]

Species

The genus contains a single species,[2] namely A. chiangmaiensis ( Jiang et al. 2008, (Type species of the genus).; New Latin feminine gender adjective chiangmaiensis, pertaining to Chiang Mai, a city in the north of Thailand in the vicinity of which the type strain was found.)[3]

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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". Int J Syst Bacteriol 47 (2): 590-2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9103655. http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/47/2/590. ]
  2. ^ a b Actinomycetospora entry in LPSN [Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". Int J Syst Bacteriol 47 (2): 590-2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9103655. http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/47/2/590. ]
  3. ^ Jiang, Y.; Wiese, J.; Tang, S. -K.; Xu, L. -H.; Imhoff, J. F.; Jiang, C. -L. (2008). "Actinomycetospora chiangmaiensis gen. Nov., sp. Nov., a new member of the family Pseudonocardiaceae". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 58 (2): 408–413. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64976-0.  edit