Ami

AMI or Ami or AmI may refer to:

Organizations

  • Aeronautica Militare Italiana, the Italian Air Force
  • African Minerals Limited, LON:AMI
  • Alpha Macky International, a Senegalese company
  • Air Micronesia, later Continental Micronesia
  • Amazon Malaria Initiative
  • American Megatrends, a computer hardware and software supplier, creating AMIBIOS
  • AMI Semiconductor or American Microsystems, Inc., a semiconductor manufacturer (part of ON Semiconductor since 2008).
  • American Media, Inc., a publisher of celebrity tabloids and fitness magazines
  • Alternative Miss Ireland, an alternative themed beauty pagent held annually in Dublin, Ireland
  • Addeo Music International, an international jazz booking agency established in 2008
  • Anugerah Musik Indonesia, the annual Indonesian Music Awards
  • American Mustache Institute, an organization advocating facial hair
  • Assistência Médica Internacional, an international medical aid organization based in Portugal
  • Association of Medical Illustrators, an international organization focused on the union of art and science
  • Ami (given name)

    Ami is a given name of Hebrew, Japanese, and Indian origins.

    Possible writing in Japanese

  • 亜美, "asia, beauty"
  • 亜海, "asia, sea"
  • 亜実, "asia, truth"
  • 亜満, "asia, satisfy, full"
  • 亜魅, "asia, fascination"
  • あみ (in hiragana)
  • アミ (in katakana)
  • People

  • Ami Dolenz (born 1969), American producer television and film actress and the daughter of Micky Dolenz and Samantha Juste
  • Ami Ghia (born 1956), Indian former badminton player
  • Ami Kawai (born 1967), Japanese stage and television actress
  • Ami Harten (1947–1994), Israeli-American applied mathematician
  • Ami James, co-owner of the tattoo parlor which is the subject of the reality television program Miami Ink
  • Ami Kikuchi (born 1990), Japanese gravure idol, tarento and radio presenter
  • Ami Koshimizu (born 1986), Japanese voice actress
  • Ami Maayani (born 1936), Israeli composer
  • Ami Mazar (born 1942), Israeli archaeologist and professor
  • Ami McKay (born 1968), Canadian novelist and journalist
  • Ami Miron, Israeli-American entrepreneur and technology developer
  • Ami Nakashima (born 1988), Japanese singer, dancer and actress
  • Ami (genus)

    Ami is a genus of tarantula spiders of South and Central America.

    Description

    The body lengths of the species range from 17 to 21 mm.

    Name

    The genus is named after a word in the Tupí language, meaning "spider that does not spin a web". A. caxiuana is named after the type locality, which means "place of many snakes" in Tupí; A. yupanquii is named after the Inca leader Tupac Yupanqui, who unified the agricultural populations of Ecuador; A. bladesi received its name in honor of Panamanian singer and composer Ruben Blades. A. pijaos honors the Pijaos, an ancient culture that populated the region of the type locality. A. amazonica refers to the Colombian amazonic region. A. weinmanni is named after Dirk Weinmann, the collector of the type specimens.

    Relationships

    Ami seems to more Pseudhapalopus than to other genera of the large subfamily Theraphosinae. It is also similar to the small brownish genera Cyclosternum and Reversopelma.

    Species

  • Ami amazonica Jiménez & Bertani, 2008 — Colombia
  • Ami bladesi Pérez-Miles, Gabriel & Gallon, 2008 — Panama
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