Name: Mycolicibacter (Gupta et al. 2018) Val-Calvo et al. 2025

Category: Subgenus

Proposed as: subgen. nov.

Etymology: My.co.li.ci.bac’ter. N.L. neut. n. acidum mycolicum, mycolic acid; N.L. masc. n. bacter, rod; N.L. masc. n. Mycolicibacter, a genus of mycolic acid-containing rod-shaped bacteria

Pronunciation, gender: my-ko-li-ki-BAK-ter, masculine (stem: Mycolicibacter-)

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.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Val-Calvo et al. (2025) assigned this subgenus to the genus Mycobacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980). 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Mycolicbacter".
  • 😵 The taxonomic category of this name is not currently in use in the LPSN hierarchy. For this reason, this name does not have a parent taxon and does not have child taxa.
  • 🧍 The distinct name Mycolicibacillus from the same publication has a similar spelling. Publication: Angell RC, Freund GE, Willett P. Automatic spelling correction using a trigram similarity measure. Information Processing and Management 1983; 19:255-261.

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Record number: 68165