Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4694

Name

Mycoplasma lucivorax Williamson et al. 1990

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

PIPN-2^T (=1PN-2 =ATCC 49196 =NCTC 11716)

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 lucivorax Williamson et al. 1990

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 species Mycoplasma lucivorax Williamson et al. 1990. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4694.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4694.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 25, 2019.

References

Williamson DL, Tully JG, Rose DL, Hackett KJ, Henegar R, Carle P, Bové JM, Colflesh DE, Whitcomb RF. Mycoplasma somnilux sp. nov., Mycoplasma luminosum sp. nov., and Mycoplasma lucivorax sp. nov., new sterol-requiring mollicutes from firefly beetles (Coleoptera: Lampyridae). Int J Syst Bacteriol 1990; 40:160-164. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-40-2-160 [PubMed].