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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Mycobacterium arseniciresistens

Name: Mycobacterium arseniciresistens (Zhu et al. 2024) Göker et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Mycolicibacterium arseniciresistens Zhu et al. 2024

Etymology: ar.se.ni.ci.re.sis’tens. N.L. neut. adj. arsenicum, arsenic; L. pres. part. resistens, resisting; N.L. neut. part. adj. arseniciresistens, arsenic-resisting, referring to the arsenic resistance of the bacterium

Pronunciation, gender: ar-se-ni-ki-re-SIS-tens, neuter

Type strain: CGMCC 1.19494; JCM 35915; KC 300

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JAUMSQ010000091 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: 68132
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