Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Mycobacterium eburneum

Name: Mycobacterium eburneum Nouioui et al. 2017

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: e.bur’ne.um. L. neut. adj. eburneum, referring to the ivory-coloured colonies produced by the organism

Gender: neuter

Type strain: CECT 8775; DSM 44358; X82

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16S rRNA gene: KX879093 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Nouioui I, Carro L, Teramoto K, Igual JM, Jando M, Del Carmen Montero-Calasanz M, Sutcliffe I, Sangal V, Goodfellow M, Klenk HP. Mycobacterium eburneum sp. nov., a non-chromogenic, fast-growing strain isolated from sputum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3174-3181.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 67, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:4881-4883.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

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

Assigned by: Nouioui I, Carro L, Teramoto K, Igual JM, Jando M, Del Carmen Montero-Calasanz M, Sutcliffe I, Sangal V, Goodfellow M, Klenk HP. Mycobacterium eburneum sp. nov., a non-chromogenic, fast-growing strain isolated from sputum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:3174-3181.

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Record number: 795802
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