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Actinopolyspora

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Domain
  
Bacteria

Class
  
Actinobacteria

Order
  
Actinomycetales

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
"Actinobacteria"

Subclass
  
Actinobacteridae

Suborder
  
Actinopolysporineae

Similar
  
Pseudonocardia, Saccharopolyspora, Nocardiopsis, Dactylosporangium, Amycolatopsis

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

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Etymology

The name Actinopolyspora means "the many-spored actinomycete" (aktis, aktinos (ἀκτίς, ἀκτῖνος), nominally meaning a beam, but in effect meaning an actinomycete-like bacterium, poly meaning many, spora meaning spores)

Species

The genus contains 11 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely

  • A. alba (Tang et al. 2011)
  • A. algeriensis(Meklat et al. 2013)
  • A. biskrensis(Saker et al. 2015)
  • A. erythraea (Tang et al. 2011)
  • A. halophila ( Gochnauer et al. 1975, species.)
  • A. iraqiensis ( Ruan et al. 1994)
  • A. lacussalsi (Guan et al. 2013)
  • A. mortivallis ( Yoshida et al. 1991)
  • A. mzabensis (Meklat et al. 2013)
  • A. righensis (Meklat et al. 2014)
  • A. xinjiangensis ( Guan et al. 2011), isolated in Xinjiang, a region of China

    • References

    Actinopolyspora Wikipedia
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