Actinobacteria

See also: actinobacteria and actinobactéria

Translingual

Etymology

From actino- +‎ Bacteria.

Proper noun

Actinobacteria

1. A group of gram-positive bacteria
   1. A taxonomic phylum within the subkingdom Posibacteria – now Actinomycetota in Bacteria.
   2. A taxonomic class within the phylum Actinomycetota.

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• As a phylum, this is now superseded by the term Actinomycetota in the NCBI Taxonomy.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

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 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