Name: Agromyces Gledhill and Casida 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. n. agros, field or soil; Gr. masc. n. mykês, fungus; from Gr. masc. n. mukês -etis, fungus; N.L. masc. n. Agromyces, soil fungus

Gender: masculine

Type species: Agromyces ramosus Gledhill and Casida 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Gledhill WE, Casida LE. Predominant Catalase-negative Soil Bacteria. III. Agromyces, gen. n., Microorganisms Intermediary to Actinomyces and Nocardia. Appl Microbiol 1969; 18:340-349.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Zgurskaya et al. 1992 Zgurskaya HI, Evtushenko LI, Akimov VN, Voyevoda HV, Dobrovolskaya TG, Lysak LV, Kalakoutskii LV. Emended description of the genus Agromyces and description of Agromyces cerinus subsp. cerinus sp. nov., subsp. nov., Agromyces cerinus subsp. nitratus sp. nov., subsp. nov., Agromyces fucosus subsp. fucosus sp. nov., subsp. nov., and Agromyces fucosus subsp. hippuratus sp. nov., subsp. nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 1992; 42:635-641. Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 42, part 4 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:189.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • Goodfellow and Williams (1983) assigned this genus to the uncategorized "Actinobacteria" Goodfellow and Williams 1983. Publication: Goodfellow M, Williams ST. Ecology of Actinomycetes. Ann. Rev. Microbiol. 1983; 37:189-216.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Agrumyces".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 36
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 37
Total number of child taxa: 40

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Agromyces albus Dorofeeva et al. 2003	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces allii Jung et al. 2007	validly published	correct name
    "Agromyces arachidis" Kaur et al. 2013	not validly published
    Agromyces atrinae Park et al. 2010	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces aurantiacus Li et al. 2003	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces aureus Corretto et al. 2016	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces badenianii Li et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces bauzanensis Zhang et al. 2010	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces binzhouensis Chen et al. 2016	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces bracchium Takeuchi and Hatano 2001	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces cerinus Zgurskaya et al. 1992	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces flavus Chen et al. 2011	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces fucosus Zgurskaya et al. 1992	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces hippuratus (Zgurskaya et al. 1992) Ortiz-Martinez et al. 2004	validly published	synonym
    Agromyces humatus Jurado et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces humi Lee and Whang 2020	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces indicus Dastager et al. 2012	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces insulae Huang et al. 2016	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces iriomotensis Hamada et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces italicus Jurado et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces kandeliae Wang et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces lapidis Jurado et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces luteolus Takeuchi and Hatano 2001	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces mangrovi Hamada et al. 2019	validly published	correct name
    "Agromyces mangrovi" Wang et al. 2018	not validly published
    Agromyces marinus Hamada et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces mediolanus (ex Mamoli 1939) Suzuki et al. 1996	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces neolithicus Jurado et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces protaetiae Heo et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces ramosus Gledhill and Casida 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces rhizosphaerae corrig. Takeuchi and Hatano 2001	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces rhizospherae (sic) Takeuchi and Hatano 2001	misspelling	orthographic variant
    Agromyces salentinus Jurado et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces soli Lee et al. 2011	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces subbeticus Jurado et al. 2005	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces subtropicus Hamada et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces tardus Sun et al. 2019	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces terreus Yoon et al. 2008	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces tropicus Thawai et al. 2011	validly published	correct name
    Agromyces ulmi Rivas et al. 2004	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: Microbacteriaceae Park et al. 1995

Assigned by: Park YH, Suzuki K, Yim DG, Lee KC, Kim E, Yoon J, Kim S, Kho YH, Goodfellow M, Komagata K. Suprageneric classification of peptidoglycan group B actinomycetes by nucleotide sequencing of 5S ribosomal RNA. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1993; 64:307-313.

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