• Expert help available:
• Contact the subcommittee for advice mollicutes-taxonomy@googlegroups.com
• Mollicutes should retain conventional nomenclature
• Engage with the Mollicutes research community prior to publication of changes

Follow the minimal standards for descriptions of new species:

Brown DR, Whitcomb RF, Bradbury JM. Revised minimal standards for description of new species of the class Mollicutes (division Tenericutes). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2007 Nov;57(Pt 11):2703-2719. doi: 10.1099/ijs.0.64722-0. PMID: 17978244; PMCID: PMC2220054. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2220054/?report=reader#