Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4775

Name

Spiroplasmataceae (ex Skripal' 1974) Skripal' 1983

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	Spiroplasma Saglio et al. 1973 emend. Freundt 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus	Medusoplasma Viver et al. 2017

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 Spiroplasmataceae (ex Skripal' 1974) Skripal' 1983

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 Spiroplasmataceae (ex Skripal' 1974) Skripal' 1983. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4775.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4775.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 9, 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].
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.
Skripal' IG. Revival of the name Spiroplasmataceae fam. nov., nom. rev., omitted from the 1980 Approved Lists of Bacterial Names 1980. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1983; 33:408-408. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-33-2-408.