Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4613

Name

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

Taxonomic Rank

order

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
class	Mollicutes Edward and Freundt 1967 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019

Members

family	Mycoplasmataceae Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019
family	Spiroplasmataceae (ex Skripal' 1974) Skripal' 1983

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this order 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

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 order Mycoplasmatales Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4613.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4613.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 25, 2019.

References

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Gupta RS, Son J, Oren A. A phylogenomic and molecular markers based taxonomic framework for members of the order Entomoplasmatales: proposal for an emended order Mycoplasmatales containing the family Spiroplasmataceae and emended family Mycoplasmataceae comprised of six genera. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2019; 112:561-588. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-018-1188-4 [PubMed].
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