Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.32844

Name

Malacoplasma Gupta et al. 2018

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Mycoplasmoidaceae Gupta et al. 2018

Members

species	Malacoplasma iowae (Jordan et al. 1982) Gupta et al. 2018
species	Malacoplasma girerdii (Fettweis et al. 2014) Gupta et al. 2018
species	Malacoplasma microti (Brown et al. 2001) Gupta et al. 2018
species	Malacoplasma muris (McGarrity et al. 1983) Gupta et al. 2018
species	Malacoplasma penetrans (Lo et al. 1992) Gupta et al. 2018

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus 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 Mycoplasmoidales Gupta et al. 2018
family Mycoplasmoidaceae Gupta et al. 2018
genus Malacoplasma Gupta et al. 2018

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 genus Malacoplasma Gupta et al. 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.32844.

Source File

10.1601/tx.32844.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 9, 2020.

References

Gupta RS, Sawnani S, Adeolu M, Alnajar S, Oren A. Phylogenetic framework for the phylum Tenericutes based on genome sequence data: proposal for the creation of a new order Mycoplasmoidales ord. nov., containing two new families Mycoplasmoidaceae fam. nov. and Metamycoplasmataceae fam. nov. harbouring Eperythrozoon, Ureaplasma and five novel genera. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2018; 111:1583-1630. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-018-1047-3 [PubMed].