Name: "Actinobacteria" Goodfellow 2012

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Etymology: Ac.ti.no.bac.te’ri.a. Gr. fem. n. aktis (gen. aktînos), a ray, beam; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a rod; N.L. neut. pl. n. bacteria, plural of bacterium; N.L. neut. pl. n. Actinobacteria, actinomycete bacteria with diverse morphologies

Pronunciation, gender: ak-ti-no-bak-TE-ri-a, neuter

Type order: Actinomycetales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)

Original publication: Goodfellow M. Phylum XXVI. Actinobacteria phyl. nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, Suzuki K, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 5, Springer, New York, 2012, p. 33-34. 🇬🇧

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Actinomycetota Goodfellow 2021

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    "Actinobacteria" (ex Margulis 1974) Cavalier-Smith 2020	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Actinobacteriota" Whitman et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Actinobacteraeota" Oren et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    Actinomycetota Goodfellow 2021	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned this phylum to the subkingdom "Posibacteria" Cavalier-Smith 1987. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753. 🇬🇧
  • 🧕 Goodfellow et al. (2012) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria" Woese et al. 1990. Publication: Goodfellow M. Phylum XXVI. Actinobacteria phyl. nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, Suzuki K, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 5, Springer, New York, 2012, p. 33-34. 🇬🇧
  • 🧕 Luketa (2012) assigned this phylum to the kingdom "Terrabacterida" Luketa 2012. Publication: Luketa S. New views on the megaclassification of life. Protistology 2012; 7:218-237. 🇷🇸
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the class Coriobacteriia König 2013 to this phylum. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the class Nitriliruptoria Ludwig et al. 2013 to this phylum. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the class Rubrobacteria Suzuki 2013 to this phylum. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the class "Acidimicrobia" to this phylum. — 🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the class "Actinobacteriia" to this phylum. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Cavalier-Smith and Chao (2020) assigned the genus Actinomyces Harz 1877 (Approved Lists 1980) to this phylum. Publication: Cavalier-Smith T, Chao EE. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria). Protoplasma 2020; 257:621-753. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Feng et al. (2020) assigned the order Motilibacterales Salam et al. 2020 to this phylum. Publication: Feng YZ, Chunyu WX, Liang R, Hahnke RL, Schumann P, Zhao YR, Gao S, Yin M, Ji Y, Sun L, et al. Vallicoccus soli gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel actinobacterium isolated from soil, and description of Vallicoccaceae fam. nov., Motilibacterales ord. nov. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2020; 113:2155-2165. 🇨🇳
  • 🧒 Ghai et al. (2013) assigned the order "Candidatus Actinomarinales" Ghai et al. 2013 to this phylum. Publication: Ghai R, Mizuno CM, Picazo A, Camacho A, Rodriguez-Valera F. Metagenomics uncovers a new group of low GC and ultra-small marine Actinobacteria. Sci Rep 2013; 3:2471. 🇪🇸
  • 🧒 Goodfellow et al. (2012) assigned the class Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997 to this phylum. Publication: Goodfellow M. Phylum XXVI. Actinobacteria phyl. nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, Suzuki K, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 5, Springer, New York, 2012, p. 33-34. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Goodfellow et al. (2012) assigned the class Acidimicrobiia Norris 2013 to this phylum. Publication: Norris PR. Class II. Acidimicrobiia class. nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, K.-I. S, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 5 (The Actinobacteria), part B, Springer, New York, 2012, p. 1968. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Goodfellow et al. (2012) assigned the class Coriobacteriia König 2013 to this phylum. Publication: König H. Class III. Coriobacteriia class nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, K.-I. S, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 5 (The Actinobacteria), part B, Springer, New York, 2012, p. 1975. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Goodfellow et al. (2012) assigned the class Nitriliruptoria Ludwig et al. 2013 to this phylum. Publication: Ludwig W, Euzéby J, Whitman WB. Class IV. Nitriliruptoria class nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, K.-I. S, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 5 (The Actinobacteria), part B, Springer, New York, 2012, p. 2000-2001. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Goodfellow et al. (2012) assigned the class Rubrobacteria Suzuki 2013 to this phylum. Publication: Suzuki K-i. Class V. Rubrobacteria class. nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, K.-I. S, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 5 (The Actinobacteria), part B, Springer, New York, 2012, p. 2004-2005. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Goodfellow et al. (2012) assigned the class Thermoleophilia Suzuki and Whitman 2013 to this phylum. Publication: Suzuki K-i, Whitman WB. Class VI. Thermoleophilia class. nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, K.-I. S, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 5 (The Actinobacteria), part B, Springer, New York, 2012, p. 2010. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Goodfellow et al. (2012) assigned the genus "Tropheryma" Relman et al. 1992 to this phylum. Publication: Goodfellow M. Phylum XXVI. Actinobacteria phyl. nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, Suzuki K, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 5, Springer, New York, 2012, p. 33-34. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Goodfellow et al. (2012) assigned the genus Frankia Brunchorst 1886 (Approved Lists 1980) to this phylum. Publication: Goodfellow M. Phylum XXVI. Actinobacteria phyl. nov. In: Goodfellow M, Kämpfer P, H.-J. B, Trujillo ME, Suzuki K, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 5, Springer, New York, 2012, p. 33-34. 🇬🇧
  • 🧒 Jiao et al. (2021) assigned the class "Candidatus Humimicrobiia" Jiao et al. 2021 to this phylum. Publication: Jiao JY, Fu L, Hua ZS, Liu L, Salam N, Liu PF, Lv AP, Wu G, Xian WD, Zhu Q, et al. Insight into the function and evolution of the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway in Actinobacteria. ISME J 2021; 15:3005-3018. 🇨🇳
  • 🧒 Jiao et al. (2021) assigned the class "Candidatus Aquicultoria" Jiao et al. 2021 to this phylum. Publication: Jiao JY, Fu L, Hua ZS, Liu L, Salam N, Liu PF, Lv AP, Wu G, Xian WD, Zhu Q, et al. Insight into the function and evolution of the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway in Actinobacteria. ISME J 2021; 15:3005-3018. 🇨🇳
  • 🧒 Jiao et al. (2021) assigned the class "Candidatus Geothermincolia" Jiao et al. 2021 to this phylum. Publication: Jiao JY, Fu L, Hua ZS, Liu L, Salam N, Liu PF, Lv AP, Wu G, Xian WD, Zhu Q, et al. Insight into the function and evolution of the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway in Actinobacteria. ISME J 2021; 15:3005-3018. 🇨🇳
  • 🧒 Merino et al. (2020) assigned the order "Candidatus Hakubellales" corrig. Merino et al. 2020 to this phylum. Publication: Merino N, Kawai M, Boyd ES, Colman DR, McGlynn SE, Nealson KH, Kurokawa K, Hongoh Y. Single-Cell Genomics of Novel Actinobacteria With the Wood-Ljungdahl Pathway Discovered in a Serpentinizing System. Front Microbiol 2020; 11:1031. 🇯🇵
  • 🧒 Neuenschwander et al. (2018) assigned the order "Candidatus Nanopelagicales" Neuenschwander et al. 2018 to this phylum. Publication: Neuenschwander SM, Ghai R, Pernthaler J, Salcher MM. Microdiversification in genome-streamlined ubiquitous freshwater Actinobacteria. ISME J 2018; 12:185-198. 🇨🇭
  • 🧒 Strassert et al. (2012) assigned the genus "Candidatus Ancillula" Strassert et al. 2012 to this phylum. Publication: Strassert JF, Kohler T, Wienemann TH, Ikeda-Ohtsubo W, Faivre N, Franckenberg S, Plarre R, Radek R, Brune A. 'Candidatus Ancillula trichonymphae', a novel lineage of endosymbiotic Actinobacteria in termite gut flagellates of the genus Trichonympha. Environ Microbiol 2012; 14:3259-3270. 🇩🇪
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Acentobacteria"; "Acfinobacteria"; "Acinobacteria"; "Acitinobacteria"; "Acitnobacteria"; "Aclinobacteria"; "Acnitobacteria"; "Acnnobacteria"; "Acrimbacteria"; "Actbacteria"; "Actenobacteria"; "Actiizobacteria"; "Actinbacteria"; "Actinibacteria"; "Actinobacteiia"; "Actinobacterla"; "Actinobacteru"; "Actinobacteu"; "Actinobactew"; "Actinobactrria"; "Actinobacttria"; "Actinobacyteria"; "Actinobateria"; "Actinohacteria"; "Actinombacteria"; "Actinomicrobia"; "Actionbacteria"; "Actionobacteria"; "Actnobacteria"; "Actonobacteria"; "Adinobacteria"; "Antinobacteria".
  • 🧍 The formation of this name was discussed in Judicial Opinion 129. Publication: Arahal et al. Judicial Opinion No. 129. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6064.

Parent taxon: Bacillati (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Oren and Göker 2024

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242. 🇩🇪

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