Actinobacteria
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See also: actinobacteria and actinobactéria
Translingual
Etymology
Proper noun
Actinobacteria
- A group of gram-positive bacteria
- A taxonomic phylum within the subkingdom Posibacteria – now Actinomycetota in Bacteria.
- A taxonomic class within the phylum Actinomycetota – now Actinomycetes.
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- As a phylum, this is now superseded by the term Actinomycetota in the NCBI Taxonomy.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
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
