Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4746

Name

Ureaplasma urealyticum Shepard et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Robertson et al. 2002

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Ureaplasma Shepard et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

CX3^T (=T960 =NCTC 10177 =ATCC 27618 =BEI NR-3861)

Type Status

Taxonomy

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


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Mycoplasmatota corrig. Murray 2021
class Mollicutes Edward and Freundt 1967 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019
order Mycoplasmoidales Gupta et al. 2018
family Mycoplasmoidaceae Gupta et al. 2018
genus Ureaplasma Shepard et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Ureaplasma urealyticum Shepard et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Robertson et al. 2002

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.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.16531	354 (=ATCC 27817)
10.1601/ex.16527	U24 (=ATCC 33696)
10.1601/ex.16529	23 (=ATCC 27814)
10.1601/ex.16533	Vancouver (=ATCC 33175)
10.1601/ex.16532	Co (=ATCC 27819)
10.1601/ex.16528	U38 (=ATCC 33698)
10.1601/ex.16530	58 (=ATCC 27816)
10.1601/ex.16526	K2 (=ATCC 33695)
10.1601/ex.16126	Western (=ATCC 33699)

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Ureaplasma urealyticum Shepard et al. 1974 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Robertson et al. 2002. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4746.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4746.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 15, 2017.

References

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.