 A strain of "M. elephantis", Lipa, contains a G-C content of 67.8%, and a genome size of 5.19 Mb.250 pseudogenes are also found in this strain.The 484t strain’s (same as DSM 44368) 16S rRNA gene sequence as compared to other rapid growing mycobacterium showed a mean 96.7+ 0.5% similarity.