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Species Mycoplasma mycoides
Name: Mycoplasma mycoides (Borrel et al. 1910) Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980)
Basonym: "Asterococcus mycoides" Borrel et al. 1910
Etymology: Gr. masc. n. mykês (gen. mykêtos), mushroom or other fungus; L. adj. suff. -oides, ressembling, similar; from Gr. neut. adj. suff. -eides, resembling, similar; from Gr. neut. n. eîdos, that which is seen, form, shape, figure; N.L. neut. adj. mycoides, fungus-like
Type strain: CCUG 32753; NCTC 10114; PG1
Conduct genome-based taxonomy at
16S rRNA gene:
U04647
Analyse
FASTA
Effective publication:
Freundt EA. The classification of the pleuropneumonia group of organisms (Borrelomycetales). International Bulletin of Bacteriological Nomenclature and Taxonomy 1955; 5:67-78. 
IJSEM list:
Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)
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Synonyms:
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Name Kind "Asterococcus mycoides" Borrel et al. 1910 homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
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Notes:
- 🥇 Nomenclatural type of the genus Mycoplasma Nowak 1929 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Nowak J. Morphologie, nature et cycle évolutif du microbe de la péripneumonie des bovidés. Annales de l'Institut Pasteur (Paris) 1929; 43:1330-1352.
- 😷 The risk group for Belgium has been imported on 2024-02-05. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "default: 1 animal pathogen - biological class of risk animal: 3; capri: 1 animal pathogen - biological class of risk animal: 3; mycoides: 1 animal pathogen - biological class of risk animal: 3". — The risk group for Canada has been imported on 2024-02-27. The full classification is: risk group = 1, note = "default: 1 Animal classification RG: 3 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No; mycoides Group: 1 Animal classification RG: 3 - Security sensitive biological agent: No - Terrestrial animal pathogen under Canadian Food Inspection Agency authority: No". — If in doubt, use the risk group given in the regulations for your country and, if these are not available, use the risk group given in the catalogue of the culture collection from which you have obtained or intend to obtain the strain.
- 🎓 Name mentioned 760 times in PubMed until 2025-06-04.
- 🙆 This name is on the List of Recommended Names for bacteria of medical importance (LoRN) as the name to be applied to this species. The name is on LoRN because of the recorded risk group of the species itself.
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🧍 In 2009, Manso-Silván et al., propose Mycoplasma leachii sp. nov. as a new species designation for Mycoplasma sp. bovine group 7 of Leach.
Publication:
Manso-Silvan L, Vilei EM, Sachse K, Djordjevic SP, Thiaucourt F, Frey J. Mycoplasma leachii sp. nov. as a new species designation for Mycoplasma sp. bovine group 7 of Leach, and reclassification of Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides LC as a serovar of Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. capri. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1353-1358.
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🧍 The bovine serogroup 7 (Mycoplasma sp. bovine group 7 of Leach) is more closely related to the two subspecies of Mycoplasma capricolum than to the two subspecies of Mycoplasma mycoides and this group might logically become a subspecies of Mycoplasma capricolum.
Publication:
Bradbury JM. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the taxonomy of mollicutes. Minutes of the interim meetings, 13 and 19 July 2000, Fukuoka, Japan. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2001; 51:2227-2230.
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🧍 The Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Mollicutes discussed the impact on the nomenclature of the Mollicutes of recent taxonomic studies on Mycoplasma mycoides indicating that it needed reclassification. Because Mycoplasma mycoides is the type species of the genus, any change in its name would have an impact on the names of all other organisms belonging to the genus, with noteworthy consequences on quarantine procedures and regulations. In order to avoid the social health issues that can arise following the renaming of regulated micro-organisms, a possible solution would be to define a new type species for the genus Mycoplasma. This option was discussed by the Subcommittee. Different opinions were expressed and no final recommendation was given.
Publication:
Firrao G, Brown R. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes. Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Mollicutes. Minutes of the meetings, 11 and 16 July 2010, Chianciano Terme, Italy. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2011; 61:695-697.
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 2
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 2
Total number of child taxa: 2
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. capri (Edward 1953) Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980) validly published under the ICNP correct name Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides (Borrel et al. 1910) Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980) validly published under the ICNP correct name
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Parent taxon: Mycoplasma Nowak 1929 (Approved Lists 1980)
Assigned by:
Freundt EA. The classification of the pleuropneumonia group of organisms (Borrelomycetales). International Bulletin of Bacteriological Nomenclature and Taxonomy 1955; 5:67-78.
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Record number: 784410
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