Mycobacterium leprae

Taxonomy ID: 1769 (for references in articles please use ncbitaxon:1769)

current name

Mycobacterium leprae  (Hansen 1880) Lehmann and Neumann 1896

homotypic synonym:

"Bacillus leprae"  Hansen 1880 , effective name  ¹⁾

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; Mycobacterium

Notes:

• 1) This taxonomic name has been effectively published but not validly published under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (Bacteriological Code).

Comments and References:

image:Mycobacterium leprae Image by from Wikimedia Commons under a Public Domain license. * Image may not have been verified for accuracy by NCBI Taxonomy.

Skerman VBD et al. (1980) Skerman, V.B.D., McGowan, V., and Sneath, P.H.A. (editors). "Approved lists of bacterial names." Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. (1980) 30(1):225-420. [No PubMed record available.]