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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Mycobacterium ahvazicum"

Name: "Mycobacterium ahvazicum" Bouam et al. 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: ah.va’zi.cum. N.L. neut. adj. ahvazicum, derived from the name Ahvaz, the city in the southwest of Iran where the strain AFP-003 T (’JCM 18430) was discovered

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: … ah-WA-zi-kum, neuter

Nomenclatural type: AFP003; JCM 18430

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: LT797535 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Bouam A, Heidarieh P, Shahraki AH, Pourahmad F, Mirsaeidi M, Hashemzadeh M, Baptiste E, Armstrong N, Levasseur A, Robert C, et al. Mycobacterium ahvazicum sp. nov., the nineteenth species of the Mycobacterium simiae complex. Sci Rep 2018; 8:4138. 🇫🇷

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

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

Assigned by: Bouam A, Heidarieh P, Shahraki AH, Pourahmad F, Mirsaeidi M, Hashemzadeh M, Baptiste E, Armstrong N, Levasseur A, Robert C, et al. Mycobacterium ahvazicum sp. nov., the nineteenth species of the Mycobacterium simiae complex. Sci Rep 2018; 8:4138. 🇫🇷

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Record number: 1591
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