Mycobacteriales

Mycobacteriales
Corynebacterium ulcerans colonies on a blood agar plate
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetia
Order: Mycobacteriales
Janke 1924 (Approved Lists 1980)[1]
Type genus
Mycobacterium
Lehmann and Neumann 1896 (Approved Lists 1980)
Families[2]
Synonyms
  • Corynebacteriales Goodfellow and Jones 2015
  • Corynebacteriineae corrig. Stackebrandt et al. 1997
  • "Mycobacteriineae" Val-Calvo & Vazquez-Boland 2023

The Mycobacteriales are an order of bacteria.[1] The current description is genome-based, per Gupta 2019 emendation. Most members produce mycolic acids.[3]

  1. ^ a b Janke A. (1924). Allgemeine technische Mikrobiologie. I. Teil. Die Mikroorganismen [General Technical Microbiology. Part I. The Microorganisms.] (1st ed.). Dresden and Leipzig: T. Steinkopf.
  2. ^ Euzéby JP, Parte AC. "Mycobacteriales". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN). Retrieved June 7, 2021.
  3. ^ Gupta, Radhey S. (22 February 2019). "Commentary: Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria". Frontiers in Microbiology. 10. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2019.00206. PMC 6395429. Mycolic acids are important constituents of the cell envelopes of most members.