Mycobacterium leprae Dataset NCBI Taxonomy Rank SPECIES Classification kingdom Bacillati phylum Actinomycetota class Actinomycetes order Mycobacteriales family Mycobacteriaceae genus Mycobacterium species Mycobacterium leprae Name Synonyms "Bacillus leprae" Hansen 1880 Bacillus leprae Mycobacterium leprae (Hansen 1880) Lehmann and Neumann 1896 Homonyms Mycobacterium leprae Mycobacterium leprae (Hansen 1880) Lehmann and Neumann 1896