Species Mycoplasma neurolyticum

Name: Mycoplasma neurolyticum (Sabin 1941) Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Musculomyces neurolyticus" Sabin 1941

Etymology: neu.ro.ly’ti.cum. Gr. neut. n. neûron, nerve; N.L. adj. lyticus -a -um, able to loose, able to dissolve; from Gr. adj. lytikos -ê -on, able to loosen, able to dissolve; N.L. neut. adj. neurolyticum, nerve-destroying

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 19988; CIP 103926; DSM 22146; IFO 14799; NBRC 14799; NCTC 10166

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16S rRNA gene: M23944 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: synonym

Correct name: Mesomycoplasma neurolyticum (Sabin 1941) Gupta et al. 2018

Risk group: 2

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
"Musculomyces neurolyticus" Sabin 1941	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
Mesomycoplasma neurolyticum (Sabin 1941) Gupta et al. 2018	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

Notes:
- Mycoplasma neurolyticum is the correct name if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Mycoplasma.
- The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 2, note = "t".

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: 784413

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