Actibacter

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title: "Actibacter" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["bacteria-genera", "flavobacteria", "monotypic-bacteria-genera"] description: "Genus of bacteria" topic_path: "general/bacteria-genera" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actibacter" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of bacteria ::

| taxon = Actibacter | authority = Kim et al. 2008 | type_species = A. sediminis | subdivision_ranks = Species

Actibacter is a genus in the phylum Bacteroidota (Bacteria). 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 rod*bacter*, nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, rod; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun Actibacter, rod from the seaside.

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

References

References

1. (2008). "''Actibacter sediminis'' gen. nov., sp. nov., a marine bacterium of the family ''Flavobacteriaceae'' isolated from tidal flat sediment". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology.
2. {{lpsn. classificationac.html. Classification of Genera AC
3. [https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/actibacter bacterio.com]

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