Actibacter

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Actibacter

| domain = Bacteria

| phylum = Bacteroidota

| classis = Flavobacteriia

| ordo = Flavobacteriales

| familia = Flavobacteriaceae

| genus = Actibacter

| binomial_authority = Kim et al. 2008

| type_species = A. sediminis

| subdivision_ranks = Species

}}

Actibacter is a genus in the phylum Bacteroidota (Bacteria).{{Cite journal | last1 = Kim | first1 = J. -H. | last2 = Kim | first2 = K. -Y. | last3 = Hahm | first3 = Y. -T. | last4 = Kim | first4 = B. -S. | last5 = Chun | first5 = J. | last6 = Cha | first6 = C. -J. | title = Actibacter sediminis gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from tidal flat sediment | journal = International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | volume = 58 | issue = Pt 1 | pages = 139–143 | year = 2008 | pmid = 18175699 | doi = 10.1099/ijs.0.65346-0| doi-access = free }}{{lpsn|classificationac.html|Classification of Genera AC}} The genus contains a single species, namely A. sediminis.

''A. sediminis''

A. sediminis, like other members of the phylum Bacteroidota, is Gram-negative and its major respiratory quinone is MK-6. Additionally, it grows aerobically and forms yellow-pigmented colonies which, however, do not contain Flexirubin-type pigments. This non-motile rod-shaped bacterium was isolated from tidal flat sediment of Dongmak on Ganghwa Island, South Korea.

Etymology

The name Actibacter derives from:
Latin noun acta, seaside; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun, a rodbacter, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, rod; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun Actibacter, rod from the seaside.[https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/actibacter bacterio.com]

While the epithet sediminis is from Latin genitive case noun sediminis, of a sediment.

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