Agarivorans

Agarivorans
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Alteromonadales
Family:	Alteromonadaceae
Genus:	Agarivorans Kurahashi and Yokota 2004
Type species
A. albus

Agarivorans is a genus in the phylum Pseudomonadota (Bacteria). ^[1]

Etymology

The name Agarivorans derives from:
Neo-Latin neuter gender noun agarum, agar; Latin participle adjective vorans, devouring; Neo-Latin masculine gender noun (Neo-Latin masculine gender participle adjective used as a substantive) agarivorans, agar-devouring. ^[2]

Species

The genus contains 4 species, namely ^[2]

• A. aestuarii ( Kim et al. 2016 ) ^[3]
• A. albus ( Kurahashi and Yokota 2004, (Type species of the genus).; Latin masculine gender adjective albus, white.) ^[4]
• A. gilvus ( Du et al. 2011; Latin masculine gender adjective gilvus, pale yellow, referring to the pale yellow pigmentation of the bacterium.) ^[5]
• A. litoreus ( Park et al. 2015 ) ^[3]

See also

• Bacterial taxonomy
• Microbiology

References

1. Classification of Genera AC in LPSN ; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 .
2. Agarivorans in LPSN ; Parte, Aidan C.; Sardà Carbasse, Joaquim; Meier-Kolthoff, Jan P.; Reimer, Lorenz C.; Göker, Markus (1 November 2020). "List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 70 (11): 5607–5612. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 .
3. "Agarivorans". LPSN .
4. "Agarivorans albus gen. nov., sp. nov., a γ-proteobacterium isolated from marine animals -- Kurahashi and Yokota 54 (3): 693 -- International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology". Archived from the original on 2008-11-20. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
5. Du, Z. -J.; Lv, G. -Q.; Rooney, A. P.; Miao, T. -T.; Xu, Q. -Q.; Chen, G. -J. (2010). "Agarivorans gilvus sp. Nov. Isolated from seaweed". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 61 (3): 493–496. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.019810-0. PMID   20363930.