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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species "Candidatus Mycoplasma ravipulmonis"

Name: "Candidatus Mycoplasma ravipulmonis" Neimark et al. 1998

Category: Species

Proposed as: Candidatus

Etymology: ra.vi.pul.mo.nis. L. masc. adj. ravus, greyish; L. masc. n. pulmo, the lung; N.L. gen. masc. n. ravipulmonis, of a grey lung (compound term)

Gender: neuter

Nomenclatural type: no culture isolated

16S rRNA gene: AF001173 Analyse FASTA

Pro-valid publication: Neimark H, Mitchelmore D, Leach RH. An approach to characterizing uncultivated prokaryotes: the Grey Lung agent and proposal of a Candidatus taxon for the organism, 'Candidatus Mycoplasma ravipulmonis'. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:389-394.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM, Parker CT, Chuvochina M, Trujillo ME. Candidatus list no. 1. Lists of names of prokaryotic Candidatus taxa. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:3956-4042.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Nomenclatural pro-status: pro-validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: pro-correct name

Parent taxon: Mycoplasma Nowak 1929 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Neimark H, Mitchelmore D, Leach RH. An approach to characterizing uncultivated prokaryotes: the Grey Lung agent and proposal of a Candidatus taxon for the organism, 'Candidatus Mycoplasma ravipulmonis'. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998; 48:389-394.

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Record number: 800224
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