Species Mycobacterium aurantiacum

Name: Mycobacterium aurantiacum (Pan et al. 2022) Göker et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Mycolicibacterium aurantiacum Pan et al. 2022

Etymology: au.ran.ti’a.cum. N.L. neut. adj. aurantiacum, orange

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: my-ko-bak-TE-ri-um a͡u-ran-TI-a-kum, neuter

Type strain: 3033; B 3033; KCTC 49712; MCCC 1K04526

16S rRNA gene: MN866017 Analysetree FASTA download

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. 🇩🇪

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 75, part 10 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2026; 76:6976.

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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