Notes:

• 1) This taxonomic name has been effectively published but not validly published under the rules of the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (Bacteriological Code).

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Balish M et al. (2019), doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.003632 Balish, M., Bertaccini, A., Blanchard, A., Brown, D., Browning, G., Chalker, V., Frey, J., Gasparich, G., Hoelzle, L., Knight, T. Jr., Knox, C., Kuo, C.-H., Manso-Silván, L., May, M., Pollack, J.D., Ramírez, A.S., Spergser, J., Taylor-Robinson, D., Volokhov, D., and Zhao, Y. "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." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (2019) 69(11):3650-3653.

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JUDICIAL OPINION 122 (2022), doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.005481 Arahal, D.R., Busse, H.-J., Bull, C.T., Christensen, H., Chuvochina, M., Dedysh, S.N., Fournier, P.-E., Konstantinidis, K.T., Parker, C.T., Rossello-Mora, R., Ventosa, A., and Göker, M. "Judicial Opinions 112-122." Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 72(8):005481. [N.B.: In Opinion 122, the request of Balish et al. (2019) to reject various taxon names of Mollicutes proposed in 2018 by Gupta et al. is denied.]

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