Recommended rejection of the names Malacoplasma gen. nov., Mesomycoplasma gen. nov., Metamycoplasma gen. nov., Metamycoplasmataceae fam. nov., Mycoplasmoidaceae fam. nov., Mycoplasmoidales ord. nov., Mycoplasmoides gen. nov., Mycoplasmopsis gen. nov. [Gupta, Sawnani, Adeolu, Alnajar and Oren 2018] and all proposed species comb. nov. placed therein

Abstract

The consensus of the members of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes' Subcommittee on the taxonomy of <i>Mollicutes</i> is that recently proposed sweeping changes to nomenclature of members of the <i>Mycoplasmatales</i>, specifically involving introduction of the names <i>Malacoplasma</i> gen. nov., <i>Mesomycoplasma</i> gen. nov., <i>Metamycoplasma</i> gen. nov., <i>Metamycoplasmataceae</i>fam. nov., <i>Mycoplasmoidaceae</i>fam. nov., <i>Mycoplasmoidales</i>ord. nov., <i>Mycoplasmoides</i> gen. nov., <i>Mycoplasmopsis</i> gen. nov., and all proposed species or subspecies comb. nov. placed therein, should be rejected because they violate one or more essential points of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes.