Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.4776
Name
 Saglio et al. 1973 emend. Freundt 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
(ex Skripal' 1974) Skripal' 1983
Members
Saglio et al. 1973 (Approved Lists 1980)
Adams et al. 1997
Mouches et al. 1984
Koerber et al. 2005
Whitcomb et al. 1993
Guo et al. 1990
Whitcomb et al. 1997
Whitcomb et al. 1993
Hackett et al. 1996
Hung et al. 1987
Carle et al. 1997
Williamson et al. 1996
Wang et al. 2011
Davis et al. 1981
Whitcomb et al. 1997
Whitcomb et al. 1997
(sic) He et al. 2018
Hackett et al. 1993
Tully et al. 1995
Whitcomb et al. 1986
Stevens et al. 1997
Hackett et al. 1996
Oduori et al. 2005
French et al. 1997
Konai et al. 1997
Clark et al. 1985
Tully et al. 1982
Whitcomb et al. 1993
Whitcomb et al. 1997
Nunan et al. 2005
Saillard et al. 1987
Williamson et al. 1997
Williamson et al. 1999
Abalain-Colloc et al. 1987
Whitcomb et al. 1996
Whitcomb et al. 1997
Abalain-Colloc et al. 1988
Hélias et al. 1998
Konai et al. 1995
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
  Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019
  (ex Skripal' 1974) Skripal' 1983
  Saglio et al. 1973 emend. Freundt 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 Spiroplasma Saglio et al. 1973 emend. Freundt 1974 (Approved Lists 1980). Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4776.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on November 24, 2021.

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