Name: Agarivorans Kurahashi and Yokota 2004

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.ga.ri’vo.rans. N.L. neut. n. agarum, agar; L. pres. part. vorans, devouring, destroying; N.L. masc. n. Agarivorans, agar-devouring

Gender, pronunciation: masculine (stem: Agarivorant-), a-ga-RI-wo-rans

Type species: Agarivorans albus Kurahashi and Yokota 2004

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kurahashi M, Yokota A. Agarivorans albus gen. nov., sp. nov., a gamma-proteobacterium isolated from marine animals. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:693-697. 🇯🇵

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 54, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2004; 54:1427-1428.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Park et al. 2014 Park S, Park JM, Jung YT, Yoon JH. Agarivorans litoreus sp. nov., a novel gammaproteobacterium isolated from seawater and emended description of the genus Agarivorans. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 2014; 106:1041-1047. 🇰🇷 Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 21. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:7-10.
    Notes:
    • ⊕ Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Flores-Felix et al. (2025) assigned this genus to the family Celerinatantimonadaceae Cramer et al. 2011. Publication: Flores-Felix JD, Garcia-Fraile P, Saati-Santamaria Z. Harmony in diversity: Reorganizing the families within the order Pseudomonadales. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2025; 0:108321. 🇪🇸
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Agariovorans".
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: KCTC: 3; NBRC: 2; JCM: 2; CGMCC: 2; DSM: 1; IAM: 1; NRRL: 1; LMG: 1.
  • 🧍 The Neo-Latin adjective (used as a substantive) Agarivorans may be in the masculine, feminine, or neuter gender. The gender of the genus name is not provided in the paper by Kurahashi and Yokota 2004. However, the epithet of the type species (albus) is in the masculine gender and Agarivorans must be in the masculine gender. Publication: Euzeby JP. List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:590-592. 🇫🇷

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 5
Total number of child taxa: 5

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Agarivorans aestuarii Kim et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agarivorans albus Kurahashi and Yokota 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agarivorans gilvus Du et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agarivorans litoreus Park et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agarivorans sediminis Bae et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Alteromonadaceae Ivanova and Mikhailov 2001

Assigned by: Kim SG, Pheng S, Lee YJ, Eom MK, Shin DH. Agarivorans aestuarii sp. nov., an agar-degrading bacterium isolated from a tidal flat. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:3119-3124. 🇰🇷

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