Acrocarpospora

Acrocarpospora
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinobacteria
Class: Actinobacteria
Subclass: Actinobacteridae
Order: Actinomycetales
Suborder: Streptosporangineae
Family: Streptosporangiaceae
Genus: Acrocarpospora
Type species
A. pleiomorpha

Acrocarpospora is a genus in the phylum Actinobacteria (Bacteria). The major respiratory quinone is menaquinone MK-9(H(4)) and use madurose, an actinomycete whole-cell sugar.[1]

Etymology

The name Acrocarpospora derives from:
Greek adjective akros, uttermost, topmost, highest, at the top, end; Greek noun karpos, fruit; Greek feminine gender noun spora, a seed, and in biology a spore; New Latin feminine gender noun Acrocarpospora, an organism forming spores like fruits on the terminal mycelium.[2]

Species

The genus contains 3 species (including basonyms and synonyms), namely[2]

  • A. corrugata ( (Williams and Sharples 1976) Tamura et al. 2000, ; Latin feminine gender participle adjective corrugata, ridged (spores).)
  • A. macrocephala ( Tamura et al. 2000, ; Greek adjective makrokephalos, long-headed; New Latin feminine gender noun macrocephala, large head.)
  • A. pleiomorpha ( Tamura et al. 2000, (Type species of the genus).; Greek adjective pleios, full; Greek noun morphē, form, shape; New Latin feminine gender adjective pleiomorpha, pleiomorphic, in various shapes.)

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/50/3/1163
  2. 1 2 Acrocarpospora entry in LPSN [Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 47 (2): 590–2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. ISSN 0020-7713. PMID 9103655. ]
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