Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4762

Name

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

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

Members

species	Mesoplasma florum (McCoy et al. 1984) Tully et al. 1993
species	Mesoplasma chauliocola Tully et al. 1994
species	Mesoplasma coleopterae Tully et al. 1994
species	Mesoplasma corruscae Tully et al. 1994
species	Mesoplasma entomophilum (Tully et al. 1988) Tully et al. 1993
species	Mesoplasma grammopterae Tully et al. 1994
species	Mesoplasma lactucae (Rose et al. 1990) Tully et al. 1993
species	Mesoplasma melaleucae (Tully et al. 1990) Gupta et al. 2019
species	Mesoplasma photuris Tully et al. 1994
species	Mesoplasma pleciae Tully et al. 1994
species	Mesoplasma seiffertii (Bonnet et al. 1991) Tully et al. 1993
species	Mesoplasma syrphidae Tully et al. 1994
species	Mesoplasma tabanidae Tully et al. 1994

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 Mycoplasmatales Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019
family Mycoplasmataceae Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019
genus Mesoplasma Tully et al. 1993 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 genus Mesoplasma Tully et al. 1993 emend. Gupta et al. 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4762.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4762.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 27, 2019.

References

Tully JG, Whitcomb RF, Hackett KJ, Rose DL, Henegar RB, Bové JM, Carle P, Williamson DL, Clark TB. Taxonomic descriptions of eight new non-sterol-requiring mollicutes assigned to the genus Mesoplasma. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1994; 44:685-693. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-44-4-685 [PubMed].
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].
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.