Domain : Bacteria
Phylum : Tenericutes
Class : Mollicutes
Order : Mycoplasmatales
Family : Mycoplasmataceae
Genus : Mycoplasma
Name: Mycoplasma Nowak 1929 (Approved Lists 1980)
Etymology: Gr. n. mukês, mushroom or other fungus; Gr. neut. n. plasma, anything formed or moulded, image, figure; N.L. neut. n. Mycoplasma, fungus form
Type species: Mycoplasma mycoides (Borrel et al. 1910) Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980)
Effective publication: Nowak J. Morphologie, nature et cycle évolutif du microbe de la péripneumonie des bovidés. Annales de l’Institut Pasteur (Paris) 1929; 43:1330-1352.
IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.
Refrence : http://www.bacterio.net/