| Catellatospora |
| SuperSet | Prokaryote, Eubacteria, Actinomycetes, Actinoplanetes |
| Compare | Actinoplanes Ampullariella, Catellatospora, Dactylosporangium, Micromonospora Pilimelia |
| Contrast | Nocardioform Actinomycetes, Actinomycetes with Multilocular Sporangia , Actinoplanetes , Streptomycetes and Related Genera Maduromycetes, Thermomonospora & Friends ,Thermoactinomycetes, Actinomycetes: Other Genera |
| Subset |
| Morphology | Catellatospora |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram- positive, |
| Morphology | vegatitive hyphae are branched but not fragmented. |
| Motility | non motile |
| Specialized structures | short chains of nonmoitle spores arise singly or in tufts from the vegative hyphae on the surface of the agar media |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface | vegative hyphae ae branched but not fragmented. No true aerial mycelium is produced |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Catellatospora |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | Chemoorganotrophic, |
| Oxygen | Aerobic |
| pH | |
| Temperature | mesophilic |
| Requirements | |
| Products | |
| Enzymes | |
| Unique features | Cell wall contains mes-diaminopimelic acid (meso-DAP), 3-hydroxydiaminopimelic acid, glycine and glycolic acid. D-xylose and L-arabinose are present in whole-cell hydrolysates. The phospholipids present include: , phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol and phosphatidylinositol mannosides |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
| Habitat | soil |
| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Catellatospora |
| G+C Mol % |
| Reference | Catellatospora |
| First citation | Asano and Kawamoto 1986 IJSB 36 512-517 |
| Emended | Asano et al 1989 IJSB 39:309-313 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 653 |
| References |