Species Mycobacterium nivoides

Name: Mycobacterium nivoides (Dahl et al. 2021) Göker et al. 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Mycolicibacterium nivoides Dahl et al. 2021

Etymology: ni.vo.i’des. L. fem. n. nix, snow; L. adj. suff. -oides, resembling, similar; from Gr. neut. adj. suff. -eides, resembling, similar; from Gr. neut. n. eîdos, that which is seen, form, shape, figure; N.L. neut. adj. nivoides, snow-like

Pronunciation, gender: ni-wo-I-des, neuter

Type strain: DL90; JCM 32796; NCCB 100660

16S rRNA gene: MH290160 Analyse FASTA

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.

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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