Species ***Mycobacterium* *pseudoshottsii***

Name: Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii Rhodes et al. 2005

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: pseu.do.shott’si.i. Gr. masc./fem. adj. pseudês, false; N.L. gen. masc. n. shottsii, name of a species; N.L. gen. masc. n. pseudoshottsii, a false Mycobacterium shottsii, not the true Mycobacterium shottsii

Pronunciation, gender: pse͡u-do-S͡HOTT-si-i, neuter

Type strain: ATCC BAA-883; DSM 45108; JCM 15466; L15; NCTC 13318

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB548713 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Rhodes MW, Kator H, McNabb A, Deshayes C, Reyrat JM, Brown-Elliott BA, Wallace RJ, Trott KA, Parker JM, Lifland B, et al. Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii sp. nov., a slowly growing chromogenic species isolated from Chesapeake Bay striped bass (Morone saxatilis). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1139-1147. 🇺🇸

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1747-1749.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

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

Risk group: 1

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 Belgium has been imported on 2024-02-05. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "animal pathogen - biological class of risk animal: 2". — The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "t2". — 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 21 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
- 🙆 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: Rhodes MW, Kator H, McNabb A, Deshayes C, Reyrat JM, Brown-Elliott BA, Wallace RJ, Trott KA, Parker JM, Lifland B, et al. Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii sp. nov., a slowly growing chromogenic species isolated from Chesapeake Bay striped bass (Morone saxatilis). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1139-1147. 🇺🇸

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Species Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii

Species ***Mycobacterium* *pseudoshottsii***