Name: "Liberiplasma" Khomyakova et al. 2025

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Li.be.ri.plas’ma. L. masc. adj. liber, free; Gr. neut. n. plasma, anything formed or molded, image, figure; N.L. neut. n. Liberiplasma, free-living form

Gender: neuter (stem: Liberiplasmat-)

Type species: "Liberiplasma polymorphum" Khomyakova et al. 2025

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Khomyakova MA, Merkel AY, Novikov AA, Slobodkin AI. Liberiplasma polymorphum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel cell-wall-less free-living anaerobe, isolated from a terrestrial mud volcano, and proposal of Liberiplasmataceae fam. nov. and Liberiplasmatales ord. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126629.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the family "Liberiplasmataceae" Khomyakova et al. 2025. Publication: Khomyakova MA, Merkel AY, Novikov AA, Slobodkin AI. Liberiplasma polymorphum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel cell-wall-less free-living anaerobe, isolated from a terrestrial mud volcano, and proposal of Liberiplasmataceae fam. nov. and Liberiplasmatales ord. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126629.
  • 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the order "Liberiplasmatales" Khomyakova et al. 2025. Publication: Khomyakova MA, Merkel AY, Novikov AA, Slobodkin AI. Liberiplasma polymorphum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel cell-wall-less free-living anaerobe, isolated from a terrestrial mud volcano, and proposal of Liberiplasmataceae fam. nov. and Liberiplasmatales ord. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126629.
  • 🧕 Khomyakova et al. (2025) assigned this genus to the order "Liberiplasmatales" Khomyakova et al. 2025. Publication: Khomyakova MA, Merkel AY, Novikov AA, Slobodkin AI. Liberiplasma polymorphum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel cell-wall-less free-living anaerobe, isolated from a terrestrial mud volcano, and proposal of Liberiplasmataceae fam. nov. and Liberiplasmatales ord. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126629.
  • 🎰 The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: VKM: 1; BIM: 1; UQM: 1.

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
    "Liberiplasma polymorphum" Khomyakova et al. 2025	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: "Liberiplasmataceae" Khomyakova et al. 2025

Assigned by: Khomyakova MA, Merkel AY, Novikov AA, Slobodkin AI. Liberiplasma polymorphum gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel cell-wall-less free-living anaerobe, isolated from a terrestrial mud volcano, and proposal of Liberiplasmataceae fam. nov. and Liberiplasmatales ord. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126629.

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