Name: "Mollicutota" Whitman et al. 2018

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Type class: Mollicutes Edward and Freundt 1967 (Approved Lists 1980)

Original publication: Whitman WB, Oren A, Chuvochina M, da Costa MS, Garrity GM, Rainey FA, Rossello-Mora R, Schink B, Sutcliffe I, Trujillo ME, et al. Proposal of the suffix -ota to denote phyla. Addendum to 'Proposal to include the rank of phylum in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes'. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:967-969.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Correct name: Mycoplasmatota Murray 2021

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Mycoplasmatota Murray 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Tenericutes" Murray 1984	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Mollicutaeota" Oren et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • The type class of this phylum has been placed in the phylum Mycoplasmatota Murray 2021. Publication: Parte AC, Sarda Carbasse J, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Reimer LC, Goker M. List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5607-5612.
  • The type class of this phylum has alternatively been placed in the phylum "Tenericutes" Murray 1984. Publication: Murray RGE. The higher taxa, or, a place for everything..? In: Krieg NR, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, first edition, vol. 1, The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1984, p. 31-34.
  • The type class of this phylum has alternatively been placed in the phylum "Firmicutes" corrig. Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.

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