Mycoplasmataceae

Mycoplasmataceae
Mycoplasma growth on Hayflick agar from a bovine mastitis infection sample
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Mycoplasmatota
Class: Mollicutes
Order: Mycoplasmatales
Family:
Freundt, 1955
Genera
Synonyms
  • "Borrelomycetaceae" Turner 1935
  • Entomoplasmataceae Tully et al. 1993
  • "Haemobartonellaceae" Yanokov 1973
  • "Parasitaceae" Sabin 1941
  • "Pleuropneumoniaceae" Tulasne & Brisou 1955

Mycoplasmataceae is a family of bacteria[1] in the order Mycoplasmatales. This family consists of Mycoplasma and four more genera.[2]

In 1967, the order Mycoplasmatales was incorporated into the class Mollicutes.[3] Sexually-transmitted species and Ureaplasma are classified in Mycoplasmoidaceae since 2018.[4]

  1. ^ E.A. Freundt The classification of the pleuropneumonia group of organisms (Borrelomycetales) Archived 22 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine International Bulletin of Bacteriological Nomenclature and Taxonomy, 1955, 5, 67–78.] (See page 73)
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference LPSN was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Edward DG, Freundt EA (1967). "Proposal for Mollicutes as name of the class established for the order Mycoplasmatales". Int J Syst Bacteriol. 17 (3): 269–272. doi:10.1099/00207713-17-3-267.
  4. ^ Gupta R, Sawnani S, Adeolu M, Alnajar S, Oren A (2018). "Phylogenetic framework for the phylum Tenericutes based on genome sequence data: proposal for the creation of a new order Mycoplasmoidales ord. nov., containing two new families Mycoplasmoidaceae fam. nov. and Metamycoplasmataceae fam. nov. harbouring Eperythrozoon, Ureaplasma and five novel genera". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 111 (9): 1583–1630. doi:10.1007/s10482-018-1047-3. PMID 29556819. S2CID 254226604.