Species ***Mycobacterium* *hiberniae***

Name: Mycobacterium hiberniae Kazda et al. 1993

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: hi.ber’ni.ae. L. gen. fem. n. hiberniae, of Hibernia, the Latin name for Ireland, the source of the strains

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 49874; ATCC 9874; CIP 104537; DSM 44241; Hi 11; JCM 13571

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: X67096 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kazda J, Cooney R, Monaghan M, Quinn PJ, Stackebrandt E, Dorsch M, Daffe M, Muller K, Cook BR, Tarnok ZS. Mycobacterium hiberniae sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:352-357.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 43, part 2 of the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:625.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Risk group: 1

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Mycolicibacter hiberniae (Kazda et al. 1993) 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 risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "Animal classification RG: 1 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No - Containment level: Containment Level 1". — The risk group for Swiss Confederation has been imported on 2024-02-01. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1. — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 3 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
- 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the genus.

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

Assigned by: Kazda J, Cooney R, Monaghan M, Quinn PJ, Stackebrandt E, Dorsch M, Daffe M, Muller K, Cook BR, Tarnok ZS. Mycobacterium hiberniae sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:352-357.

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Species Mycobacterium hiberniae

Species ***Mycobacterium* *hiberniae***