Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4754

Name

Entomoplasmataceae Tully et al. 1993

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

Members

genus	Entomoplasma Tully et al. 1993 emend. Gupta et al. 2019
genus	Mesoplasma Tully et al. 1993 emend. Gupta et al. 2019

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 Mycoplasmatales Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019
family Entomoplasmataceae Tully et al. 1993

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 Entomoplasmataceae Tully et al. 1993. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4754.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4754.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 25, 2019.

References

Tully JG, Bové JM, Laigret F, Whitcomb RF. Revised taxonomy of the class Mollicutes: proposed elevation of a monophyletic cluster of arthropod-associated mollicutes to ordinal rank (Entomoplasmatales ord. nov.), with provision for familial rank to separate species with nonhelical morphology (Entomoplasmataceae fam. nov.) from helical species (Spiroplasmataceae), and emended descriptions of the order Mycoplasmatales, family Mycoplasmataceae. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43:378-385. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-43-2-378.