Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.4745
Name
 Shepard et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Gupta et al. 2018
Members
Shepard et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Robertson et al. 2002
Harasawa et al. 1993
Harasawa et al. 1990
Howard and Gourlay 1982
Harasawa et al. 1990
Koshimizu et al. 1987
Volokhov et al. 2020
Robertson et al. 2002
Volokhov et al. 2020
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  corrig. Murray 2021
  Edward and Freundt 1967 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019
  Gupta et al. 2018
  Gupta et al. 2018
  Shepard et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

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 Ureaplasma Shepard et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4745.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on February 14, 2020.

References

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  2. Shepard MC, Lunceford CD, Ford DK, Purcell RH, Taylor-Robinson D, Razin S, Black FT. Ureaplasma urealyticum gen. nov., sp. nov.: proposed nomenclature for the human T (T-strain) mycoplasmas. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1974; 24:160-171. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-24-2-160.
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