Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4673

Name

Mycoplasma genitalium Tully et al. 1983

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Mycoplasma Nowak 1929 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2018

Type Strain

representative organism

G37^T (=G-37 =CIP 103767 =ATCC 33530)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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
genus Mycoplasma Nowak 1929 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2018
species Mycoplasma genitalium Tully et al. 1983

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.16039	M6320
10.1601/ex.16037	M2321
10.1601/ex.16038	M6282
10.1601/ex.16036	M2288

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Mycoplasma genitalium Tully et al. 1983. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4673.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4673.xml


This information was last reviewed on September 5, 2018.

References

Tully JG, Taylor-Robinson D, Rose DL, Cole RM, Bové JM. Mycoplasma genitalium, a new species from the human urogenital tract. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1983; 33:387-396. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-33-2-387.