Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.4612
Name
 Edward and Freundt 1967 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019
Taxonomic Rank
class
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
corrig. Murray 2021
Members
Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019
Freundt et al. 1984
Robinson and Freundt 1987
Tully et al. 1993
Antunes et al. 2008
Wang et al. 2004
Nechitaylo et al. 2009
Kostanjšek et al. 2007
None 2015
Zhu et al. 2020
Gupta et al. 2018
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this class 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

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 class Mollicutes Edward and Freundt 1967 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4612.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on November 23, 2021.

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