Mycobacterium

Taxonomy ID: 1763 (for references in articles please use ncbitaxon:1763)

current name

Mycobacterium  Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980) in  in  [Skerman VBD et al. (1980)] , [Lehmann KB & Neumann R (1896)]

homotypic synonym:

Mycobacterium  Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2018 , emended name  ¹⁾ in  in  [Gupta RS et al. (2018)] , [List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion No. 28 (2018)]

Mycobacterium  Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Val-Calvo and Vázquez-Boland 2023 , emended name  ²⁾ in [Val-Calvo J & Vázquez-Boland JA (2023)]

includes:

Mycobacterium (subgen. Mycobacterium)  (Lehmann and Neumann 1896) Val-Calvo et al. 2025 in [Val-Calvo J et al. (2025)]

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

Lineage(full)

cellular organisms; Bacteria; Bacillati; Actinomycetota; Actinomycetes; Mycobacteriales; Mycobacteriaceae

Notes:

• 1) emend. (emendavit): Used when the alteration of the diagnostic characters or of the circumscription of a taxon modifies the nature of the taxon.
• 2) emend. (emendavit): Used when the alteration of the diagnostic characters or of the circumscription of a taxon modifies the nature of the taxon.

Comments and References:

Gupta RS et al. (2018) , doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00067 , Pubmed: abstract Gupta, R.S., Lo, B., and Son, J. "Phylogenomics and comparative genomic studies robustly support division of the genus Mycobacterium into an emended genus Mycobacterium and four novel genera." Front. Microbiol. (2018) 9:67. [Corrigendum: Front. Microbiol. (2019) 10:714. (PMID 31024493)]

List of Changes in Taxonomic Opinion No. 28 (2018) , Pubmed: abstract "Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2018) 68(7):2137-2138.

Skerman VBD et al. (1980) Skerman, V.B.D., McGowan, V., and Sneath, P.H.A. "Approved Lists of Bacterial Names." Intl. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1980) 30(1):225-420.

Lehmann KB & Neumann R (1896)

Meehan CJ et al. (2021) , doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004922 , Pubmed: abstract Meehan, C.J., Barco, R.A., Loh, Y.E., Cogneau, S., and Rigouts, L. "Reconstituting the genus Mycobacterium." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2021) 71(9):004922.

Val-Calvo J & Vázquez-Boland JA (2023) , Pubmed: abstract Val-Calvo, J., and Vázquez-Boland, J.A. "Mycobacteriales taxonomy using network analysis-aided, context-uniform phylogenomic approach for non-subjective genus demarcation." mBio (2023) 14(5):e02207-23.

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.

Mycobacterium (LPSN link)

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