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Actinobaculum

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Domain
  
Bacteria

Subclass
  
Actinobacteridae

Suborder
  
Actinomycineae

Scientific name
  
Actinobaculum

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Actinobacteria

Order
  
Actinomycetales

Family
  
Actinomycetaceae

Higher classification
  
Actinomycetaceae

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Bacteria, Arcanobacterium haemolyticum, High GC gram+, Aerococcus urinae, Aerococcus

Actinobaculum is a genus in the phylum Actinobacteria (Bacteria).

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Etymology

The name Actinobaculum derives from Greek noun aktis, aktinos ἀκτίς, ἀκτῖνος', a beam; Latin baculum, rod, stick; .

Species

The genus contains four species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely

  • A. massiliense (corrig. Greub and Raoult 2006; Latin massiliense, of or pertaining to Massilia, the Latin name of Marseille, where the organism was isolated.)
  • A. schaalii (Lawson et al. 1997, ; New Latin schaalii, of Schaal, to honor Klaus P. Schaal, contemporary German microbiologist, for his contributions to actinomycete microbiology.)
  • A. suis ( (Wegienek and Reddy 1982) Lawson et al. 1997, (Type species of the genus); Latin suis, of a hog, of a pig)
  • A. urinale (Hall et al. 2003; Latin urinale, of or belonging to urine)

    • References

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