Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4812

Name

Acholeplasmataceae Edward and Freundt 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)

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	Acholeplasmatales Freundt et al. 1984

Members

genus	Acholeplasma Edward and Freundt 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus	Alteracholeplasma Watanabe et al. 2021
genus	Haploplasma Watanabe et al. 2021
genus	Mariniplasma Watanabe et al. 2021 non Mariniplasma Mortzfeld et al. 2016
genus	Paracholeplasma Watanabe et al. 2021

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 Acholeplasmatales Freundt et al. 1984
family Acholeplasmataceae Edward and Freundt 1970 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Acholeplasmataceae Edward and Freundt 1970 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4812.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4812.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 11, 2022.

References

Freundt EA, Whitcomb RF, Barile MF, Razin S, Tully JG. Proposal for elevation of the family Acholeplasmataceae to ordinal rank: Acholeplasmatales. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1984; 34:346-349. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-34-3-346.
Brown DR, Bradbury JM, Johansson K-E. Order III. Acholeplasmatales Freundt, Whitcomb, Barile, Razin and Tully 1984, 348(VP). In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 687-723.
Watanabe M, Kojima H, Okano K, Fukui M. Mariniplasma anaerobium gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel anaerobic marine mollicute, and proposal of three novel genera to reclassify members of Acholeplasma clusters II-IV. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005138 [PubMed].