Order Mycobacteriales
Warning: In the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature, an arrow (→) only indicates the sequence of valid publication of names and does not mean that the last name in the sequence must be used (see: Introduction).
Classification - Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction".
Mycobacteriales Janke 1924, ordo. (Type order of the class ¤ Arabobacteria Cavalier-Smith 2002).
Type genus: ¤ Mycobacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980).
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Mycobacterium, type genus of the order; suff. -ales, ending denoting an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Mycobacteriales, the Mycobacterium order.
Approved Lists reference: SKERMAN (V.B.D.), McGOWAN (V.) and SNEATH (P.H.A.) (editors): Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1980, 30, 225-420 (Approved Lists of Bacterial Names in IJSEM Online - Approved Lists of Bacterial Names Amended edition).
Original publication: JANKE (A.): Allgemeine Technische Mikrobiologie. I. Teil. Die Mikroorganismen, T. Steinkopf, Dresden und Leipzig, 1924, pp. 1-342.
Mycobacteriales Cavalier-Smith 2002, ord. nov.
Type genus: ¤ Mycobacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980).
Etymology: N.L. neut. n. Mycobacterium, type genus of the order; suff. -ales, ending denoting an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Mycobacteriales, the Mycobacterium order.
Valid publication: CAVALIER-SMITH (T.): The neomuran origin of archaebacteria, the negibacterial root of the universal tree and bacterial megaclassification. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol., 2002, 52, 7-76.
Original article in IJSEM Online
Note: ¤ Mycobacteriales Janke 1924 (Approved Lists 1980) has priority [Rule 24b(2)].