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Actinomycetospora

Actinomycetospora
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: "Actinobacteria"
Class: Actinobacteria
Subclass: Actinobacteridae
Order: Actinomycetales
Suborder: Pseudonocardineae
Family: Pseudonocardiaceae
Genus: Actinomycetospora
Type species
A. chiangmaiensis

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

The name Actinomycetospora derives from:
New Latin noun actinomyces -etis (from Greek noun aktis, aktinos (ἀκτίς, ἀκτῖνος), a beam and Greek noun mukēs -ētos, mushroom or other fungus), an actinomycete; Greek feminine gender noun spora (σπορά), a seed and, in biology, a spore; New Latin feminine gender noun Actinomycetospora, referring to an actinomycete with spore chains.

The genus contains a single species, namely A. chiangmaiensis ( Jiang et al. 2008, (Type species of the genus).; New Latin feminine gender adjective chiangmaiensis, pertaining to Chiang Mai, a city in the north of Thailand in the vicinity of which the type strain was found.)


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