Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.1671

Name

Ralstonia Yabuuchi et al. 1996

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Burkholderiaceae Garrity et al. 2006

Members

species	Ralstonia pickettii (Ralston et al. 1973) Yabuuchi et al. 1996
species	Ralstonia basilensis Steinle et al. 1999 emend. Goris et al. 2001
species	Ralstonia campinensis Goris et al. 2001
species	Ralstonia eutropha (Davis et al. 1969) Yabuuchi et al. 1996
species	Ralstonia gilardii Coenye et al. 1999
species	Ralstonia insidiosa Coenye et al. 2003 emend. Vaneechoutte et al. 2004
species	Ralstonia mannitolytica (sic) De Baere et al. 2001
species	Ralstonia metallidurans Goris et al. 2001
species	Ralstonia oxalatica (ex Khambata and Bhat 1953) Sahin et al. 2000
species	Ralstonia paucula Vandamme et al. 1999
species	Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum Safni et al. 2014
species	Ralstonia respiraculi Coenye et al. 2003
species	Ralstonia solanacearum (Smith 1896) Yabuuchi et al. 1996 emend. Safni et al. 2014
species	Ralstonia syzygii (Roberts et al. 1990) Vaneechoutte et al. 2004 emend. Safni et al. 2014
species	Ralstonia taiwanensis Chen et al. 2001
species	Ralstonia sp. None 2015

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Betaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2006 emend. Boden et al. 2017
order Burkholderiales Garrity et al. 2006
family Burkholderiaceae Garrity et al. 2006
genus Ralstonia Yabuuchi et al. 1996

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Ralstonia Yabuuchi et al. 1996. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.1671.

Source File

10.1601/tx.1671.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 25, 2018.

References

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