Agromyces

The name Agromyces derives from:
Greek noun agros, field or soil; New Latin masculine gender noun myces (from Greek masculine gender noun mukēs -etis), fungus; New Latin masculine gender noun Agromyces, soil fungus.[2]

The genus contains 31 species, namely[2]

• A. albus ( Dorofeeva et al. 2003, ; Latin masculine gender adjective albus, white, referring to the white colour of colonies.)[3]
• A. allii ( Jung et al. 2007, ;: New Latin genitive case noun allii, of Allium, referring to the source of isolation of the micro-organisms, the rhizosphere of Allium victorialis var. platyphyllum.)[4]
• A. atrinae ( Park et al. 2010, ; New Latin noun Atrina, zoological name for a genus of bivalve mollusc; New Latin genitive case noun atrinae, of Atrina, referring to the isolation of the type strain from a fermented food prepared from Atrina pectinata (comb pen shell).)[5]
• A. aurantiacus ( Li et al. 2003, ; New Latin masculine gender adjective aurantiacus, orange-coloured.)[6]
• A. aureus ( Corretto et al. 2016 )[7]
• A. bauzanensis ( Zhang et al. 2010, ; Medieval Latin masculine gender adjective bauzanensis, of or belonging to Bauzanum, the medieval Latin name of Bozen/Bolzano, a city in South Tyrol, Italy, from where the type strain was isolated.)[8]
• A. binzhouensis ( Chen et al. 2016 )[7]
• A. bracchium ( Takeuchi and Hatano 2001, ; Latin noun brachium (nominative in apposition), a branch of a tree, a twig, referring to the twig-like morphology.)[9]
• A. cerinus ( Zgurskaya et al. 1992, ; Latin masculine gender adjective cerinus, waxcolored, yellow like wax.)[10]
• A. flavus ( Chen et al. 2011 ) [7]
• A. fucosus ( Zgurskaya et al. 1992, ; New Latin noun fucosum, fucose; New Latin masculine gender adjective fucosus (sic), containing fucose in the cell wall.)[10]
• A. hippuratus ( (Zgurskaya et al. 1992) Ortiz-Martinez et al. 2004, ; New Latin masculine gender adjective hippuratus, pertaining to hippurate, relating to the ability to decompose hippurate.)[11]
• A. humatus ( Jurado et al. 2005, ; Latin masculine gender participle adjective humatus, buried.)[12]
• A. indicus ( Dastager et al. 2012 )[7]
• A. insulae ( Huang et al. 2016 )[7]
• A. iriomotensis ( Hamada et al. 2014 )[7]
• A. italicus ( Jurado et al. 2005, ; Latin masculine gender adjective italicus, of or pertaining to Italy, of Italy, the origin of the type strain.)[12]
• A. lapidis ( Jurado et al. 2005, ; Latin noun lapis -idis, a stone; Latin genitive case noun lapidis, of a stone.)[12]
• A. luteolus ( Takeuchi and Hatano 2001, ; Latin dim. masculine gender adjective luteolus, yellowish.)[9]
• A. marinus ( Hamada et al. 2015 )[7]
• A. mediolanus ( (ex Mamoli 1939) Suzuki et al. 1996, nom. rev., ; New Latin masculine gender adjective mediolanus (sic), of or belonging Mediolanum, the old name of Milan, Italy.)[13]
• A. neolithicus ( Jurado et al. 2005, ; New Latin masculine gender adjective neolithicus, neolithic, referring to the origin of the neolithic paintings in Grotta dei Cervi, the source of the soil from which the organism was isolated.)[14]
• A. ramosus ( Gledhill and Casida 1969, species. (Type species of the genus).; Latin masculine gender adjective ramosus, having many branches, much-branched.)[15]
• A. rhizospherae ( Takeuchi and Hatano 2001, ; New Latin rhiza, root; Greek noun sphaira, sphere; New Latin genitive case noun rhizospherae, of the sphere of the root.)[9]
• A. salentinus ( Jurado et al. 2005, ; New Latin masculine gender adjective salentinus, of or pertaining to Salentine Peninsula, the location of Grotta dei Cervi, the area from which the organism was isolated.)[14]
• A. soli ( Lee et al. 2011 )[7]
• A. subbeticus ( Jurado et al. 2005, ; New Latin masculine gender adjective subbeticus, of or belonging to the Subbetic Mountain Range, southern Spain, where the Cave of Bats is located.)[16]
• A. subtropicus ( Hamada et al. 2014 )[7]
• A. terreus ( Yoon et al. 2008, ; Latin masculine gender adjective terreus, of the earth.)[17]
• A. tropicus ( Thawai et al. 2011, ; Latin masculine gender adjective tropicus, tropical, of or pertaining to the tropic(s), relating to isolation from a tropical forest.)[18]
• A. ulmi ( Rivas et al. 2004, ; Latin genitive case noun ulmi, of the elm tree, referring to the isolation source of this micro-organism.)[19]

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