Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.6392

Name

Mycobacterium pinnipedii Cousins et al. 2003

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Mycobacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Meehan et al. 2021

Type Strain

representative organism

NCTC 13288^T (=6482 =ATCC BAA-688)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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
genus Mycobacterium Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Meehan et al. 2021
species Mycobacterium pinnipedii Cousins et al. 2003

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 species Mycobacterium pinnipedii Cousins et al. 2003. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6392.

Source File

10.1601/tx.6392.xml


This information was last reviewed on July 18, 2018.

References

Cousins DV, Bastida R, Cataldi A, Quse V, Redrobe S, Dow S, Duignan P, Murray A, Dupont C, Ahmed N, Collins DM, Butler WR, Dawson D, Rodríguez D, Loureiro J, Romano MI, Alito A, Zumarraga M, Bernardelli A. Tuberculosis in seals caused by a novel member of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex: Mycobacterium pinnipedii sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:1305-1314. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02401-0 [PubMed].