Micromonosporaceae

Micromonosporaceae is a family of bacteria of the class Actinomycetia. They are gram-positive, spore-forming soil organisms that form a true mycelium.

Micromonosporaceae
Actinoplanes utahensis on agar plate
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Actinomycetota
Class:	Actinomycetia
Order:	Micromonosporales Genilloud 2015[1]
Family:	Micromonosporaceae Krasil'nikov 1938 (Approved Lists 1980)
Type genus
Micromonospora Ørskov 1923 (Approved Lists 1980)
Genera
See text.
Synonyms
Synonyms of Micromonosporales Actinocatenisporales Salam et al. 2020 Phytomonosporales Salam et al. 2020 Actinoplanetales corrig. Cavalier-Smith 2002 Micromonosporineae Stackebrandt et al. 1997 Synonyms of Micromonosporaceae Actinoplanetaceae corrig. Couch 1955 Phytomonosporaceae Salam et al. 2020 Actinocatenisporaceae Salam et al. 2020

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[2] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).^[3]

Whole-genome based phylogeny[4][a]
Glycomycetales Glycomycetaceae Micromonosporales Actinocatenisporaceae Actinocatenispora Micromonosporaceae Longispora Catelliglobosispora Hamadaea Dactylosporangium Catenuloplanes Pseudosporangium Actinoplanes Asanoa Salinispora Maldonado et al. 2005 Micromonospora

16S rRNA based LTP_08_2023[5][6][7]

120 marker proteins based GTDB 08-RS214[8][9][10]

Micromonosporales Actinocatenisporaceae Actinocatenispora Thawai et al. 2006 Phytomonosporaceae Actinorhabdospora Mingma et al. 2016 Phytomonospora Li et al. 2011 Glycomycetaceae Stackebrandtia species-group 2 Stackebrandtia Labeda & Kroppenstedt 2005 Natronoglycomyces Sorokin et al. 2021 Salilacibacter Li et al. 2016b Haloglycomyces Guan et al. 2009 Salininema corrig. Nikou et al. 2015 Glycomyces Labeda et al. 1985 Micromonosporaceae Longispora Matsumoto et al. 2003 Micromonospora~6 Pilimelia Kane 1966 Planosporangium Wiese et al. 2008 Polymorphospora Tamura et al. 2006 Micromonospora pisi Micromonospora~5 Luedemannella Ara and Kudo 2007 Hamadaea Ara et al. 2008 Allorhizocola Sun et al. 2019 Catelliglobosispora Ara et al. 2008 Rhizocola Matsumoto et al. 2014 Allocatelliglobosispora Lee and Lee 2011 Catellatospora Asano and Kawamoto 1986 Rugosimonospora Monciardini et al. 2009 Virgisporangium corrig. Tamura et al. 2001 Dactylosporangium Thiemann et al. 1967 Phytohabitans Inahashi et al. 2010 Phytohabitans houttuyneae Asanoa Lee and Hah 2002 Catenuloplanes Yokota et al. 1993 Mangrovihabitans Liu et al. 2017 Actinoplanes~1 Couchioplanes caeruleus azureus Krasilnikovia Ara and Kudo 2007 Jidongwangia Jia et al. 2013 ex Han et al. 2023 Nucisporomicrobium Han et al. 2022 Couchioplanes Tamura et al. 1994 Pseudosporangium Ara et al. 2008 Actinoplanes Couch 1950 Micromonospora Ørskov 1923 (incl. Plantactinospora; Salinispora; Spirilliplanes)

Micromonosporaceae Phytomonosporaceae Phytomonospora Glycomycetaceae Stackebrandtia Natronoglycomyces Haloglycomyces Glycomyces Actinocatenisporaceae Actinocatenispora Micromonosporaceae Longispora "Natronosporangium" Sorokin et al. 2022 Rugosimonospora Planosporangium Virgisporangium Dactylosporangium Allocatelliglobosispora Hamadaea Allorhizocola Catelliglobosispora Rhizocola Catellatospora Pilimelia Phytohabitans Asanoa Catenuloplanes Spirilliplanes Tamura et al. 1997 Actinoplanes (incl. Krasilnikovia; Mangrovihabitans; Pseudosporangium) Micromonospora pattaloongensis Polymorphospora Micromonospora polyrhachis Micromonospora pisi Plantactinospora Qin et al. 2009 Micromonospora [incl. Salinispora] s.s. s.l.

Genera incertae sedis:

• "Solwaraspora" Magarvey et al. 2004^[11]

Notes

1. Actinorhabdospora, Allocatelliglobosispora, Allorhizocola, Catellatospora, Couchioplanes, Krasilnikovia, Luedemannella, Mangrovihabitans, Phytohabitans, Phytomonospora, Pilimelia, Planosporangium, Plantactinospora, Polymorphospora, Rhizocola, Rugosimonospora, Spirilliplanes, and Virgisporangium are not included in this phylogenetic tree.

See also

• Bacterial taxonomy
• List of bacterial orders
• List of bacteria genera