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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Mycobacterium rhizamassiliense"

Name: "Mycobacterium rhizamassiliense" Bouam et al. 2018

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: rhi.za.mas.si.li.en’se. L. neut. adj. massiliense, of Massilia, the old Latin name for Marseille where the strain was isolated; Gr. fem. n. rhiza, the name of root; N.L. neut. adj. rhizamassiliense

Pronunciation, gender: rhi-za-mas-si-li-EN-se, neuter

Nomenclatural type: AB57; CSUR P2566; DSM 103273

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16S rRNA gene: LT558842 Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Bouam A, Armstrong N, Levasseur A, Drancourt M. Mycobacterium terramassiliense, Mycobacterium rhizamassiliense and Mycobacterium numidiamassiliense sp. nov., three new Mycobacterium simiae complex species cultured from plant roots. Sci Rep 2018; 8:9309. 🇫🇷

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

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

Assigned by: Bouam A, Armstrong N, Levasseur A, Drancourt M. Mycobacterium terramassiliense, Mycobacterium rhizamassiliense and Mycobacterium numidiamassiliense sp. nov., three new Mycobacterium simiae complex species cultured from plant roots. Sci Rep 2018; 8:9309. 🇫🇷

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Record number: 7933
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