Name: "Tenericutes" Murray 1984

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

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

Original publication: Murray RGE. The higher taxa, or, a place for everything..? In: Krieg NR, Holt JG (eds), Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 1., The Williams & Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1984, p. 31-34.

IJSEM list: Anonymous. Validation list no. 15. Validation of publication of new names and new combinations previously effectively published outside the IJSB. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1984; 34:355-357.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Correct name: Mycoplasmatota Murray 2021

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Mycoplasmatota Murray 2021	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    "Mollicutota" Whitman et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, not validly published
    "Mollicutaeota" Oren et al. 2015	homotypic synonym, not validly published

• Notes:
  • Murray (1984) assigned this phylum to the domain "Bacteria". 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.
  • Murray (1984) assigned the class Mollicutes Edward and Freundt 1967 (Approved Lists 1980) to this phylum. 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.
  • Skennerton et al. (2016) assigned the genus "Izemoplasma" to this phylum. Publication: Skennerton CT, Haroon MF, Briegel A, Shi J, Jensen GJ, Tyson GW, Orphan VJ. Phylogenomic analysis of Candidatus 'Izimaplasma' species: free-living representatives from a Tenericutes clade found in methane seeps. ISME J 2016; 10:2679-2692.
  • Zheng et al. (2021) assigned the class "Candidatus Izemoplasma" corrig. Skennerton et al. 2016 to this phylum. Publication: Zheng R, Liu R, Shan Y, Cai R, Liu G, Sun C. Characterization of the first cultured free-living representative of Candidatus Izemoplasma uncovers its unique biology. ISME J 2021; 15:2676-2691.
  • Zheng et al. (2021) assigned the family "Izemoplasmaceae" Zheng et al. 2021 to this phylum. Publication: Zheng R, Liu R, Shan Y, Cai R, Liu G, Sun C. Characterization of the first cultured free-living representative of Candidatus Izemoplasma uncovers its unique biology. ISME J 2021; 15:2676-2691.
  • 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 "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.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Teneriquetes"; "Tenevicutes"; "Terenicutes".

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://lpsn.dsmz.de/phylum/tenericutesCopy to clipboardLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 906