Actinobacteria

See also: actinobacteria and actinobactéria

Translingual

Etymology

From actino- +‎ Bacteria.

Proper noun

Actinobacteria

A group of gram-positive bacteria
1. A taxonomic phylum within the subkingdom Posibacteria.
2. A taxonomic class within the phylum Actinobacteria.

Usage notes

Also sometimes a division.
As a phylum, this is now superseded by the term Actinomycetota in the NCBI Taxonomy.

Synonyms

(phylum): Actinomycetota

Hypernyms

(class): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Posibacteria - subkingdom; Actinobacteria - phylum

Hyponyms

(phylum): Acidimicrobia, Actinobacteria, Coriobacteria, Nitriliruptoria, Rubrobacteria, Thermoleophilia - classes
(class): Actinobacteridae, Acidimicrobidae, Coriobacteridae, Rubrobacteridae, Sphaerobacteridae - subclasses
- Acidimicrobiales, Actinomycetales, Bifidobacteriales, Coriobacteriales, Euzebyales, Gaiellales, Nitriliruptorales, Rubrobacteriales, Solirubrobacteriales, Thermoleophilales - orders

References

Actinobacteria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Actinobacteria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Actinobacteria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Actinobacteria at List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature
Actinobacteria at National Center for Biotechnology Information (phylum)
Actinobacteria at Encyclopedia of Life
Actinobacteria at the Tree of Life Web Project
Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248

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