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In their paper entitled “Same meat, different gravy: ignore the new names of mycobacteria”, Tortoli et al. [1] called to ignore the recently proposed generic names Mycobacteroides, Mycolicibacter, Mycolicibacterium and Mycolicibacillus in which some species of Mycobacterium were reclassified [2], and to keep using the old names. The authors correctly stated that with the validation of the new names in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (IJSEM) [3], the old names remain validly published and anyone is free to use them. By explaining this, they did a great service to the community of microbiologists and clinicians. The message presented by Tortoli and co-workers in their paper “Same meat, different gravy: ignore the new names of mycobacteria” is correct, but the paper contains many errors and misconceptions about the functioning of the Prokaryotic Code and the IJSEM http://bit.ly/2YD9u6s