Species Mycobacterium acidiphilum

Name: Mycobacterium acidiphilum (Xia et al. 2022) Göker et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Mycolicibacter acidiphilus Xia et al. 2022

Etymology: a.ci.di’phi.lum. L. neut. adj. acidum, an acid; from L. masc. adj. acidus, sour; N.L. masc. adj. suff. -philus, friendly to, loving; from Gr. masc. adj. philos, friendly to, loving; N.L. neut. adj. acidiphilum, acid-loving

Pronunciation, gender: a-ki-DI-phi-lum, neuter

Type strain: KCTC 49392; M1; MCCC 1H00416

16S rRNA gene: MZ171447 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: 68131
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