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Genus Agrococcus
Name: Agrococcus Groth et al. 1996
Etymology: A.gro.coc’cus. Gr. masc. n. agros, field or soil; N.L. masc. n. coccus, coccus; from Gr. masc. n. kokkos, grain, seed; N.L. masc. n. Agrococcus, a coccus from soil
Gender: masculine (stem: Agrococc-)
Type species: Agrococcus jenensis Groth et al. 1996
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Valid publication:
Groth I, Schumann P, Weiss N, Martin K, Rainey FA. Agrococcus jenensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus of actinomycetes with diaminobutyric acid in the cell wall. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:234-239. 
IJSEM list:
Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 46, part 1 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:627.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
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Notes:
- 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Acrococcus"; "Agococcus"; "Agrococus"; "Agrocuccus"; "Anrococcus".
- 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
- 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Dhanjal et al. (2011), Zlamala et al. (2002). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.
- 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.05300 (N = 7).
- 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: JCM: 9; DSM: 9; NBRC: 5; CCM: 2; CIP: 2; ATCC: 2; LMG: 2; KCTC: 2; MTCC: 2; CCUG: 1.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 11
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 11
Total number of child taxa: 15
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Agrococcus baldri Zlamala et al. 2002 validly published under the ICNP correct name Agrococcus beijingensis Gu et al. 2024 validly published under the ICNP correct name Agrococcus carbonis Dhanjal et al. 2011 validly published under the ICNP correct name Agrococcus casei Bora et al. 2007 validly published under the ICNP correct name "Agrococcus chionoecetis" Chaudhary et al. 2025 not validly published preferred name Agrococcus citreus Wieser et al. 1999 validly published under the ICNP correct name Agrococcus jejuensis Lee 2008 validly published under the ICNP correct name Agrococcus jenensis Groth et al. 1996 validly published under the ICNP correct name Agrococcus lahaulensis Mayilraj et al. 2006 validly published under the ICNP correct name "Agrococcus pavilionensis" White et al. 2018 not validly published preferred name "Agrococcus phoenicis" Schultz et al. 2025 not validly published preferred name "Candidatus Agrococcus pullicola" Gilroy et al. 2021 not validly published pro-correct name Agrococcus sediminis Qu et al. 2020 validly published under the ICNP correct name Agrococcus terreus Zhang et al. 2010 validly published under the ICNP correct name Agrococcus versicolor Behrendt et al. 2008 validly published under the ICNP correct name
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Parent taxon: Microbacteriaceae Park et al. 1995
Assigned by:
Stackebrandt E, Rainey FA, Ward-Rainey NL. Proposal for a new hierarchic classification system, Actinobacteria classis nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1997; 47:479-491.
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