Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4614

Name

Mycoplasmataceae Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Mycoplasmatales Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019

Members

genus	Mycoplasma Nowak 1929 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2018
genus	Asterococcus Borrel et al. 1910
genus	Edwardiiplasma Gupta et al. 2019
genus	Entomoplasma Tully et al. 1993 emend. Gupta et al. 2019
genus	Eperythrozoon Schilling 1928 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2018
genus	Haemobartonella Tyzzer and Weinman 1939 emend. Kreier and Ristic 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus	Marinoplasma (sic) Mortzfeld et al. 2016
genus	Mesoplasma Tully et al. 1993 emend. Gupta et al. 2019
genus	Moeniiplasma Naito et al. 2017
genus	Tullyiplasma Gupta et al. 2019
genus	Ureaplasma Shepard et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus	Vermiplasma Murakami et al. 2015
genus	Williamsoniiplasma Gupta et al. 2019

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Mycoplasmatota corrig. Murray 2021
class Mollicutes Edward and Freundt 1967 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019
order Mycoplasmatales Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019
family Mycoplasmataceae Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the family Mycoplasmataceae Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4614.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4614.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 24, 2021.

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