Name: "Tenericutes" (Murray 1984) Brown 2010

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Etymology: Ten.er’i.cutes. L. masc. adj. tener, tender; L. fem. n. cutis, skin; N.L. fem. pl. n. Tenericutes, prokaryotes of a soft pliable nature indicative of a lack of a rigid cell wall

Gender: feminine

Type order: Mycoplasmatales Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980)

Original publication: Brown DR. Phylum XVI. Tenericutes Murray 1984a, 356VP (Effective publication: Murray 1984b, 33.). In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 567.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Mycoplasmatota Murray 2021

• Synonyms:

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

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Krieg et al. (2010) assigned the class Mollicutes Edward and Freundt 1967 (Approved Lists 1980) to this phylum. Publication: Paster BJ. Class I. Spirochaetia class. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, et al. (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes, vol. 4, 2nd ed., Springer, New York, 2010, p. 471-563.
  • 🧒 Skennerton et al. (2016) assigned the genus "Candidatus Izemoplasma" corrig. Skennerton et al. 2016 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" 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Tenercutes"; "Teneriquetes"; "Tenevicutes"; "Terenicutes".
  • 🧍 The formation of this name was discussed in Judicial Opinion 129. Publication: Arahal et al. Judicial Opinion No. 129. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6064.

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