Subgenus Mycobacterium

Name: Mycobacterium (Lehmann and Neumann 1896) Val-Calvo et al. 2025

Category: Subgenus

Proposed as: subgen. nov.

Etymology: My.co.bac.te’ri.um. Gr. masc. n. mykês, a mushroom, fungus; N.L. neut. n. bacterium, a rod; N.L. neut. n. Mycobacterium, a fungus rodlet

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: my-ko-bak-TE-ri-um, neuter (stem: Mycobacteri-)

Valid publication: Val-Calvo J, Scortti M, Goker M, Vazquez-Boland JA. Leveraging the subgenus category to address monophyletic genus over-splitting: illustration with recently proposed Mycobacteriales genera. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6917. 🇬🇧

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 75, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6967.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 3

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Record number: 68163

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