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

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: A.gro’my.ces. Gr. masc. n. agros, field or soil; Gr. masc. n. mykês, fungus; from Gr. masc. n. mykês (gen. mykêtos), fungus; N.L. masc. n. Agromyces, soil fungus

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): masculine (stem: Agromycet-), a-GRO-my-kes

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

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective 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 under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

• 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. Annu Rev Microbiol 1983; 37:189-216.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Agromyccs"; "Agrumyces"; "Aromyces". — 🤨 This taxon name is occasionally used in plural form as: "Agromycetes".
  • 💁 Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Jurado et al. (2005), Hamada et al. (2014), Cheng et al. (2021), Fang et al. (2022), Yoon et al. (2008). 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 BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: DSM: 35; JCM: 32; NBRC: 24; KCTC: 15; VKM: 10; IFO: 9; CGMCC: 9; LMG: 8; NCIMB: 7; ATCC: 5.
  • 😷 The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "AGMY" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 51
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 52
Total number of child taxa: 56

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Agromyces aerolatus" Song et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name
    Agromyces agglutinans Yi et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces albus Dorofeeva et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces allii Jung et al. 2007	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Agromyces arachidis" Kaur et al. 2013	not validly published	preferred name
    Agromyces archimandritae Guzman et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces atrinae Park et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces aurantiacus Li et al. 2003	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces aureus Corretto et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces badenianii Li et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces bauzanensis Zhang et al. 2010	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces binzhouensis Chen et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces bracchium Takeuchi and Hatano 2001	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces cavernae Fang et al. 2022	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces cerinus Zgurskaya et al. 1992	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces chitinivorans Xu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces chromiiresistens Liu et al. 2024	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces endophyticus Kim et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces excoecariae Li et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces flavus Chen et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces fucosus Zgurskaya et al. 1992	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces hippuratus (Zgurskaya et al. 1992) Ortiz-Martinez et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Agromyces humatus Jurado et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces humi Lee and Whang 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces indicus Dastager et al. 2012	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces insulae Huang et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces intestinalis Lee et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces iriomotensis Hamada et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces italicus Jurado et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces kandeliae Wang et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces laixinhei Cheng et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces lapidis Jurado et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces larvae Won et al. 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces litoreus Xu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces luteolus Takeuchi and Hatano 2001	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces mangrovi Hamada et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Agromyces mangrovi" Wang et al. 2018	not validly published	preferred name
    Agromyces mariniharenae Zhang et al. 2021	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces marinus Hamada et al. 2015	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces mediolanus (ex Mamoli 1939) Suzuki et al. 1996	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces neolithicus Jurado et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces protaetiae Heo et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces ramosus Gledhill and Casida 1969 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces rhizosphaerae corrig. Takeuchi and Hatano 2001	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces rhizospherae Takeuchi and Hatano 2001	inaccurate spelling	misspelling
    Agromyces salentinus Jurado et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces seonyuensis Kim and Kim 2023	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces silvae Lee et al. 2026	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces soli Lee et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces subbeticus Jurado et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces subtropicus Hamada et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces tardus Sun et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces terreus Yoon et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces tropicus Thawai et al. 2011	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces ulmi Rivas et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Agromyces zhanjiangensis Xu et al. 2025	validly published under the ICNP	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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