Species Mycobacterium acapulcense

Name: Mycobacterium acapulcense corrig. (Gupta et al. 2024) Göker et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Mycolicibacterium acapulense Gupta et al. 2024

Etymology: a.ca.pul.cen’se. N.L. neut. adj. acapulcense, from Acapulco, a town on the Pacific coast of México [probably better: acapulconense]

Pronunciation, gender: a-ka-pul-KEN-se, neuter

Type strain: AC-103; ATCC 14473; CECT 3026; JCM 6402

16S rRNA gene: AF480575 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Göker M, Christensen H, Fingerle V, Kostovski M, Margos G, Moore ERB, Oren A, Patrick S, Reischl U, Vázquez-Boland JA. List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance: report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Mitigating Changes in Prokaryotic Nomenclature. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2025; 75:0.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Parent taxon: Mycobacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Göker M, Christensen H, Fingerle V, Kostovski M, Margos G, Moore ERB, Oren A, Patrick S, Reischl U, Vázquez-Boland JA. List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance: report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Mitigating Changes in Prokaryotic Nomenclature. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 2025; 75:0.

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Record number: 68130
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