Mycobacteriales

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

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