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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Mycoplasma struthionis

Name: Mycoplasma struthionis Spergser et al. 2021

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: stru.thi.on’is. N.L. gen. masc. n. struthionis, of an ostrich (Struthio camelus)

Gender: neuter

Type strain: 237IA; ATCC BAA-1890; DSM 22453

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: FM165077 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Spergser J, Botes A, Nel T, Ruppitsch W, Lepuschitz S, Langer S, Ries S, Dinhopl N, Szostak M, Loncaric I, et al. Mycoplasma nasistruthionis sp. nov. and Mycoplasma struthionis sp. nov. isolated from ostriches with respiratory disease. Syst Appl Microbiol 2020; 43:126047.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Validation list no. 197. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:1-6.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name (and explicitly recommended for medical use)

Parent taxon: Mycoplasma Nowak 1929 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Spergser J, Botes A, Nel T, Ruppitsch W, Lepuschitz S, Langer S, Ries S, Dinhopl N, Szostak M, Loncaric I, et al. Mycoplasma nasistruthionis sp. nov. and Mycoplasma struthionis sp. nov. isolated from ostriches with respiratory disease. Syst Appl Microbiol 2020; 43:126047.

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Record number: 17633
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