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        <authority>Tyzzer and Weinman 1939 emend. Kreier and Ristic 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)</authority>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.4745" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.4746" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.4746" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.4745">Ureaplasma</identifier>
        <authority>Shepard et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)</authority>
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        <authority>Schilling 1928 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2018</authority>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.4615" nomenclatural-type="10.1601/tx.10888" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.4616" rank="genus" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.4615">Mycoplasma</identifier>
        <authority>Nowak 1929 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2018</authority>
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        <authority>Naito et al. 2017</authority>
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        <authority>Gupta et al. 2019</authority>
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        <authority>Tully et al. 1993 emend. Gupta et al. 2019</authority>
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        <authority>Tully et al. 1993 emend. Gupta et al. 2019</authority>
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        <authority>Murakami et al. 2015</authority>
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        <authority>(sic) Mortzfeld et al. 2016</authority>
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        <authority>corrig. Mortzfeld et al. 2016 non Mariniplasma Watanabe et al. 2021</authority>
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        <identifier doi="10.1601/nm.27378" nomenclatural-type-exemplar="10.1601/ex.4616" rank="species" taxon-doi="10.1601/tx.27378">Asterococcus mycoides</identifier>
        <authority>Borrel et al. 1910</authority>
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        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Borrel</surname>
            <given-names>A.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Dujardin-Beaumetz</surname>
            <given-names>E.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Jeantet</surname>
            <given-names>P.</given-names>
          </person-name>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Jouan</surname>
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        <article-title>Le Microbe de la péripneumonie.</article-title>
        <year>1910</year>
        <volume>24</volume>
        <fpage>168</fpage>
        <lpage>179</lpage>
        <source id="752">Annales de l'Institut Pasteur</source>
        <abbrev>Ann Inst Pasteur (Paris)</abbrev>
        <issn>0020-2444</issn>
      </citation>
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      <citation citation-type="journal">
        <authors>
          <person-name>
            <surname>Judicial Commission</surname>
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          </person-name>
        </authors>
        <article-title>Opinion 22.  Status of the Generic Name Asterococcus and Conservation of the Generic Name Mycoplasma</article-title>
        <year>1958</year>
        <volume>8</volume>
        <issue>3-4</issue>
        <fpage>166</fpage>
        <lpage>168</lpage>
        <source id="748">International Bulletin of Bacteriological Nomenclature and Taxonomy</source>
        <abbrev>Int Bull Bacteriol Nomencl Taxon</abbrev>
        <issn>0096-266X</issn>
        <pub-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1099/0096266X-8-3-4-166</pub-id>
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