Mesoplasma

Mesoplasma is a genus of bacteria belonging to the class Mollicutes. Mesoplasma is related to the genus Mycoplasma but differ in several respects.^[2]

Mesomoplasma
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Mycoplasmatota
Class:	Mollicutes
Order:	Mycoplasmatales
Family:	Entomoplasmataceae
Genus:	Mesoplasma Tully et al. 1993[1]
Type species
Mesoplasma flora (McCoy et al. 1984) Tully et al. 1993
Species
M. chauliocola M. coleopterae M. entomophilum M. flora M. grammopterae M. melaleucae M. tabanidae

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)^[3] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).^[4]

16S rRNA based LTP_10_2024[5][6][7]	120 marker proteins based GTDB 09-RS220[8][9][10]
Mesoplasma M. chauliocola M. tabanidae M. coleopterae M. grammopterae M. entomophilum M. flora	Mesoplasma M. chauliocola Tully et al. 1994 M. melaleucae (Tully et al. 1990) Gupta, Son & Oren 2019 M. flora (McCoy et al. 1984) Tully et al. 1993 M. grammopterae Tully et al. 1994 M. tabanidae Tully et al. 1994 M. coleopterae Tully et al. 1994 M. entomophilum (Tully et al. 1988) Tully et al. 1993

See also

• List of bacteria genera
• List of bacterial orders