Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.822
Name
 Tarrand et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Falk et al. 1985
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Hördt et al. 2020
Members
(Beijerinck 1925) Tarrand et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)
Lin et al. 2016
Magalhães et al. 1984
Dos Santos Ferreira et al. 2020
Tarrand et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Mehnaz et al. 2007
Zhu et al. 2022
Eckert et al. 2001
Lin et al. 2013
Lin et al. 2012
Yang et al. 2019
Reinhold et al. 1987
Zhou et al. 2013
Khammas et al. 1991
(sic) (Skerman et al. 1983) Ben Dekhil et al. 1997
(sic) Pagnier et al. 2008
Peng et al. 2006
Xie and Yokota 2005
Tikhonova et al. 2019
Lin et al. 2009
Anandham et al. 2019
Young et al. 2008
Lin et al. 2015
Zhao et al. 2020
Lavrinenko et al. 2010 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Mehnaz et al. 2007
None 2015
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
  Garrity et al. 2006
  Pfennig and Trüper 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
  Hördt et al. 2020
  Tarrand et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Falk et al. 1985

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 Azospirillum Tarrand et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Falk et al. 1985. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.822.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on November 24, 2021.

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