Name: Mycobacteriaceae Chester 1897 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: My.co.bac.te.ri.a’ce.ae. N.L. neut. n. Mycobacterium, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Mycobacteriaceae, the Mycobacterium family

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Mycobacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Chester FD. Report of mycologist: bacteriological work. Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 1897; 9:38-145.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 3
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 7
Total number of child taxa: 8

Parent taxon: Mycobacteriales Janke 1924 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Tindall BJ. On the status of the names Corynebacteriales Goodfellow and Jones 2015, Mycobacteriales Janke 1924 (Approved Lists 1980) and Mycobacteriales Cavalier-Smith 2002. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 69:3310-3312.

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Record number: 912
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