Species ***Mycobacterium* *intracellulare***

Name: Mycobacterium intracellulare corrig. (Cuttino and McCabe 1949) Runyon 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Nocardia intracellularis" Cuttino and McCabe 1949

Etymology: in.tra.cel.lu.la’re. L. adv. intra, within; L. fem. n. cellula, a small store-room and in biology a cell; N.L. neut. adj. suff. -are, suffix denoting pertaining to; N.L. neut. adj. intracellulare, intracellular

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 13950; CCUG 28005; CIP 104243; DSM 43223; JCM 6384; NCTC 13025; TMC 1406

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Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AF547939 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Runyon EH. Pathogenic mycobacteria. Advances in Tuberculosis Research 1965; 14:235-287.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 2

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Mycobacterium paraintracellulare Lee et al. 2016	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
"Nocardia intracellularis" Cuttino and McCabe 1949	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
Mycobacterium intracellularis (Cuttino and McCabe 1949) Runyon 1965 (Approved Lists 1980)	homotypic synonym, orthographic variant

Emendations:
- Castejon et al. 2018 Castejon M, Menendez MC, Comas I, Vicente A, Garcia MJ. Whole-genome sequence analysis of the Mycobacterium avium complex and proposal of the transfer of Mycobacterium yongonense to Mycobacterium intracellulare subsp. yongonense subsp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:1998-2005. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 68, part 6 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:2710-2711.

Notes:
- According to Nouioui et al. (2018), this species is an earlier heterotypic synonym of Mycobacterium paraintracellulare Lee et al. 2016. Publication: 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.
- Synonymy of this taxon was mentioned in an IJSEM list. Publication: 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.
- The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 2, note = "ht".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 3

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Mycobacterium intracellulare subsp. chimaera (Tortoli et al. 2004) Nouioui et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Mycobacterium intracellulare subsp. yongonense (Kim et al. 2013) Castejon et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Mycobacterium intracellulare subsp. intracellulare (Cuttino and McCabe 1949) Castejon et al. 2018	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

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

Assigned by: Runyon EH. Pathogenic mycobacteria. Advances in Tuberculosis Research 1965; 14:235-287.

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Species Mycobacterium intracellulare

Species ***Mycobacterium* *intracellulare***