Overview
Taxonomy
The Order Actinomycetales is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Suborder (9): Actinomycineae · Corynebacterineae · Frankineae · Micrococcineae · Micromonosporineae · Propionibacterineae · Pseudonocardineae · Streptomycineae · Streptosporangineae
- Family (16): Acidothermaceae · Actinomycetaceae · Brevibacteriaceae · Corynebacteriaceae · Gordoniaceae · Microbacteriaceae · Micrococcaceae · Micromonosporaceae · Mycobacteriaceae · Nocardiaceae · Nocardioidaceae · Pseudonocardiaceae · Sporichthyaceae · Streptomycetaceae · Streptosporangiaceae · Thermomonosporaceae
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3,016 species and subspecies in the Order Actinomycetales.
Families
Acidothermaceae
Actinomycetaceae
Actinomycetaceae is a family of bacteria in the order that contains the medically important genus Actinomyces. [more]
Brevibacteriaceae
Brevibacterium is a genus of of the order Actinomycetales. They are Gram-positive soil organisms. It is the sole genus in the family Brevibacteriaceae. [more]
Corynebacteriaceae
Corynebacterium is a of Gram-positive rod-shaped bacteria. They are widely distributed in nature and are mostly innocuous. Some are useful in industrial settings such as C. glutamicum. Others cause human disease such as C. diphtheriae, the pathogen responsible for diphtheria. [more]
Gordoniaceae
Microbacteriaceae
Microbacteriaceae is a family of of the order Actinomycetales. They are Gram-positive soil organisms. [more]
Micrococcaceae
The family Micrococcaceae includes bacterial genera of cocci that inhabit the air and skin such as Micrococcus luteus. [more]
Micromonosporaceae
Micromonosporaceae is a family of of the order Actinomycetales. They are gram-positive, spore-forming soil organisms that form a true mycelium. [more]
Mycobacteriaceae
Mycobacterium is a of Actinobacteria, given its own family, the Mycobacteriaceae. The genus includes pathogens known to cause serious diseases in mammals, including tuberculosis and leprosy. The Latin prefix "myco—" means both fungus and wax; its use here relates to the "waxy" compounds in the cell wall. [more]
Nocardiaceae
The Nocardiaceae are a of aerobic, non-fastidious, high G+C, Gram-positive actinomycetes that are commonly found in soil and water. Members of this family have been isolated from Antarctic soils. Nocardiaceae present coccobacilli, filamentous or, rarely, fragmented and palisading forms, and filamentous species grow in a branching morphological pattern similar to fungal hyphae. [more]
Nocardioidaceae
Pseudonocardiaceae
Sporichthyaceae
Streptomycetaceae
Streptomycetaceae is a family of , including the important genus Streptomyces, which was the original source of most antibiotics. [more]
Streptosporangiaceae
Thermomonosporaceae
At least 50 species and subspecies belong to the Family Thermomonosporaceae.
More info about the Family Thermomonosporaceae may be found here.
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