Taxonomy browser Taxonomy Browser (Mycobacteroides stephanolepidis)

Entrez records
Database name	Direct links	Subtree links	Links from type
BioProject	2	2	-
BioSample	2	2	-
Gene	1	1	-
Identical Protein Groups	9,582	9,582	-
Nucleotide	12	12	9
PMC	8	8	-
Protein	9,742	9,742	-
Taxonomy	1	1	-

Mycobacteroides stephanolepidis

Taxonomy ID: 1520670 (for references in articles please use ncbitaxon:1520670)

current name

Mycobacteroides stephanolepidis (Fukano et al. 2017) Val-Calvo et al. 2025 in in [Val-Calvo J et al. (2025)] , [Val-Calvo J et al. (2026)]

includes:

Mycobacterium sp. NJB0901

basionym:

Mycobacterium stephanolepidis Fukano et al. 2017 in [Fukano H et al. (2017b)]

type strain of Mycobacterium stephanolepidis: personal : NJB0901 , JCM : 31611 , KCTC : 39843

not considered type of Mycobacterium stephanolepidis: personal : HY188

NCBI BLAST name: high G+C Gram-positive bacteria
Rank: species
Genetic code: Translation table 11 (Bacterial, Archaeal and Plant Plastid)

Lineage(full): cellular organisms; Bacteria; Bacillati; Actinomycetota; Actinomycetes; Mycobacteriales; Mycobacteriaceae; Mycobacteroides

Comments and References:

Fukano H et al. (2017b) , Pubmed: abstract

Fukano, H., Wada, S., Kurata, O., Katayama, K., Fujiwara, N., and Hoshino, Y. "Mycobacterium stephanolepidis sp. nov., a rapidly growing species related to Mycobacterium chelonae, isolated from marine teleost fish, Stephanolepis cirrhifer." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2017) 67(8):2811-2817.

Val-Calvo J et al. (2025) , doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.006917 , Pubmed: abstract

Val-Calvo, J., Scortti, M., Göker, M., and Vázquez-Boland, J.A. "Leveraging the subgenus category to address monophyletic genus over-splitting: illustration with recently proposed Mycobacteriales genera." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2025) 75(9):006917.

Val-Calvo J et al. (2026) , doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.007233 , Pubmed: abstract

Val-Calvo, J., Scortti, M., Göker, M., and Vázquez-Boland, J.A. "Corrigendum: Leveraging the subgenus category to address monophyletic genus over-splitting: illustration with recently proposed Mycobacteriales genera." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2026) 76(7):007233.

Fukano H et al. (2017)

Fukano, H., Yoshida, M., Katayama, Y., Omatus, T., Mizutani, T., Kurata, O., Wada, S., and Hoshino, Y. "Complete genome sequence of Mycobacterium stephanolepidis." Genome Announc. (2017) 5(33):e00810-17.

Disclaimer: The NCBI taxonomy database is not an authoritative source for nomenclature or classification - please consult the relevant scientific literature for the most reliable information.

Reference: How to cite this resource - Schoch CL, et al. NCBI Taxonomy: a comprehensive update on curation, resources and tools. Database (Oxford). 2020: baaa062. PubMed: 32761142 PMC: PMC7408187.