Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Mycobacterium helvum

Name: Mycobacterium helvum Tran and Dahl 2016

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hel’vum. L. neut. adj. helvum, pale yellow, intended to mean pale yellow-pigmented

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DL739; JCM 30396; NCCB 100520

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16S rRNA gene: KM216314 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Tran PM, Dahl JL. Mycobacterium sarraceniae sp. nov. and Mycobacterium helvum sp. nov., isolated from the pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4480-4485.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 66, part 11 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:179-182.

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: Tran PM, Dahl JL. Mycobacterium sarraceniae sp. nov. and Mycobacterium helvum sp. nov., isolated from the pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:4480-4485.

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Record number: 794777
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