Actinobacteria

name (for a phylum of Gram-positive bacteria) that has been ruled out of existence
Taxon taxon Q130914
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Summary

Actinobacteria is a taxon[1]. Actinobacteria ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,841 views/month, #1,614 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: synonym[3]
  • Taxon rank: phylum[4]
  • Parent taxon: Posibacteria[5], Bacillati[6]
  • Taxon name: Actinobacteria[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Actinobacteria[8]
  • Taxon common name: Actinobacteri[9], aktinobakterie[10], Aktinobakterier[11], Ακτινομύκητες[12], Aktinomütseedid[13], Kiirikbakterid[14], Kiirikulised[15], Aktinobakteerit[16], 放線菌[17], Straalzwammen[18], Актиномицеты[19], แอคติโนมัยสีท[20], Актинобактерії[21], Xạ khuẩn[22]
  • LPSN URL: https://lpsn.dsmz.de/phylum/actinobacteria[23]
  • Gram staining: gram-positive bacteria[24]
  • Taxon synonym of: Actinomycetota[25]
  • Homonymous taxon: Actinobacteria[26]

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Identifiers

Actinobacteria's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 151842[27]. Actinobacteria's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 7861[28]. Actinobacteria's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 26[29]. Actinobacteria's ITIS TSN is recorded as 956099[30].

Why It Matters

Actinobacteria has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] Actinobacteria is known by 74 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . LPSN. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . A higher level classification of all living organisms. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . A higher level classification of all living organisms. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . LPSN. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . A higher level classification of all living organisms. wikidata.org.
  6. [30] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [28] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [23] ↑ . LPSN. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [25] ↑ . LPSN. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  28. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 1d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'ca', 'en', 'fr', 'id', 'simple', 'zh']
    Sitelink count → 8
    Store medisinske leksikon id → Aktinobakterier, aktinobakterier
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-single-property-update:1||2 */ Store medisinske leksikon id, SML ID Aktinobakterier deprecated (now SML aktinobakterier), SML ID aktinobakterier from Store medisinske leksik"
  2. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0258235-aktinomycety
    Wikidata description → name (for a phylum of Gram-positive bacteria) that has been ruled out of existen
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0258235-aktinomycety, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259576|batch #259576]]"
  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Topic's main category → Category:Actinobacteria
    Homonymous taxon → Actinobacteria
    Taxon synonym of → Actinomycetota
    Taxon rank → phylum
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007544883005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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