Name: "Borrelomyces" Turner 1935

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. masc. n. mykês, a mushroom, fungus; N.L. masc. n. Borrelomyces

Gender: masculine (stem: Borrelomycet-)

Type species: "Borrelomyces peripneumoniae" (Nowak 1929) Turner 1935

Original publication: Turner AW. A study on the morphology and life cycles of the organism of Pleuropneumonia contagiosa boum (Borrelomyces peripneumoniae nov. gen.) by observation in the living state under dark-ground illumination. J. Path. Bact. 1935; 41:1-32.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Borrelomycetaceae" Turner 1935. Publication: Turner AW. A study on the morphology and life cycles of the organism of Pleuropneumonia contagiosa boum (Borrelomyces peripneumoniae nov. gen.) by observation in the living state under dark-ground illumination. J. Path. Bact. 1935; 41:1-32.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order "Borrelomycetales" Turner 1935. Publication: Turner AW. A study on the morphology and life cycles of the organism of Pleuropneumonia contagiosa boum (Borrelomyces peripneumoniae nov. gen.) by observation in the living state under dark-ground illumination. J. Path. Bact. 1935; 41:1-32.
  • 🧕 Turner (1935) assigned this genus to the family "Borrelomycetaceae" Turner 1935. Publication: Turner AW. A study on the morphology and life cycles of the organism of Pleuropneumonia contagiosa boum (Borrelomyces peripneumoniae nov. gen.) by observation in the living state under dark-ground illumination. J. Path. Bact. 1935; 41:1-32.
  • 🧕 Turner (1935) assigned this genus to the order "Borrelomycetales" Turner 1935. Publication: Turner AW. A study on the morphology and life cycles of the organism of Pleuropneumonia contagiosa boum (Borrelomyces peripneumoniae nov. gen.) by observation in the living state under dark-ground illumination. J. Path. Bact. 1935; 41:1-32.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Bmelomyces".
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "BOMY" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 1

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Borrelomyces peripneumoniae" (Nowak 1929) Turner 1935	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Metamycoplasmataceae Gupta et al. 2018

Assigned by: Gupta RS, Sawnani S, Adeolu M, Alnajar S, Oren A. 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 2018; 111:1583-1630.

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