Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.6309

Name

Mycobacteriaceae Chester 1897 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2018

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Corynebacteriales Goodfellow and Jones 2015 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018

Members

genus	Mycobacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Meehan et al. 2021
genus	Amycolicicoccus Wang et al. 2010
genus	Hoyosella Jurado et al. 2009 emend. Hamada et al. 2016
genus	Mycobacteroides Gupta et al. 2018
genus	Mycolicibacillus Gupta et al. 2018
genus	Mycolicibacter Gupta et al. 2018
genus	Mycolicibacterium Gupta et al. 2018

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Actinobacteria (sic) Goodfellow 2021 non Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997
class Actinomycetes Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
order Corynebacteriales Goodfellow and Jones 2015 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
family Mycobacteriaceae Chester 1897 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2018

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the family Mycobacteriaceae Chester 1897 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6309.

Source File

10.1601/tx.6309.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 18, 2018.

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