Actinocorallia is a genus in the phylum Actinobacteria (Bacteria).
The name Actinocorallia derives from:
Greek noun 'aktis, aktinos (ἀκτίς, ἀκτῖνος), a beam; Latin noun corallium, coral; New Latin feminine gender noun Actinocorallia, meaning an actinomycete microorganism that forms sporophores resembling coral.
The genus contains 7 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely
A. aurantiaca ( (Lavrova and Preobrazhenskaya 1975) Zhang 'et al.'. 2001, ; New Latin feminine gender adjective aurantiaca, orange-coloured, referring to the gold-colored substrate mycelium.), was formerly known as Actinomadura aurantiaca
A. aurea ( Tamura 'et al.'. 2007, ; Latin feminine gender adjective aurea, golden.), formerly known as "Sarraceniospora aurea"
A. cavernae ( Lee 2006, ; Latin genitive case noun cavernae, of a cavern), was isolated from a cave in Jeju, Korea
A. glomerata ( (Itoh 'et al.'. 1996) Zhang 'et al.'. 2001, ; Latin feminine gender participle adjective glomerata, (from Latin v. glomerare, to form into ball, glomerate), formed into a ball, glomerated.), formerly known as Actinomadura glomerata
A. herbida ( Iinuma 'et al.'. 1994, (Type species of the genus).; Latin feminine gender adjective herbida, like grass, grassy, referring to the formation of aerial mycelia like grass.)
A. libanotica ( (Meyer 1981) Zhang 'et al.'. 2001, ; Latin noun Libanus, Lebanon; Latin feminine gender suff. -tica, suff. denoting made of or belonging to; New Latin feminine gender adjective libanotica, belonging to Lebanon (the country in which the soil sample was taken).), was formerly known as Actinomadura libanotica
A. longicatena ( (Itoh 'et al.'. 1996) Zhang 'et al.'. 2001, ; Latin adjective longus, long; Latin feminine gender noun catena, chain; New Latin feminine gender noun longicatena, a long chain.)
