Species ***Mycobacterium* *algericum***

Name: Mycobacterium algericum Sahraoui et al. 2011

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: al.ge’ri.cum. N.L. neut. adj. algericum, of or pertaining to Algeria, the country where the strain was first isolated

Gender: neuter

Type strain: Bejaia; CIP 110121; DSM 45454; TBE 500028/10

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: GU564404 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Sahraoui N, Ballif M, Zelleg S, Yousfi N, Ritter C, Friedel U, Amstutz B, Yala D, Boulahbal F, Guetarni D, et al. Mycobacterium algericum sp. nov., a novel rapidly growing species related to the Mycobacterium terrae complex and associated with goat lung lesions. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1870-1874.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 61, part 8 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:2566-2567.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Mycolicibacter algericus (Sahraoui et al. 2011) Gupta et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Emendations:
- Nouioui et al. 2018 Nouioui I, Carro L, Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk HP, Goodfellow M, Goker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:2007. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 29. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:13-32.

Notes:
- The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 1, note = "t+".

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

Assigned by: Sahraoui N, Ballif M, Zelleg S, Yousfi N, Ritter C, Friedel U, Amstutz B, Yala D, Boulahbal F, Guetarni D, et al. Mycobacterium algericum sp. nov., a novel rapidly growing species related to the Mycobacterium terrae complex and associated with goat lung lesions. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1870-1874.

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Species Mycobacterium algericum

Species ***Mycobacterium* *algericum***