Name: Spirochaeta Ehrenberg 1835 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. fem. n. speîra, a coil (Latin transliteration spira); Gr. fem. n. chaitê, hair (Latin transliteration chaeta); N.L. fem. n. Spirochaeta, coiled hair

Gender: feminine (stem: Spirochaet-)

Type species: Spirochaeta plicatilis Ehrenberg 1835 (Approved Lists 1980)

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Ehrenberg CG. Dritter Beitrag zur Erkenntniss grosser Organisation in der Richtung des kleinsten Raumes. Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin) aus den Jahren 1833-1835 1835; 1833-1835:143-336.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 11
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 24
Total number of child taxa: 45

Parent taxon: Spirochaetaceae Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.

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Record number: 516636
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