Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.17956

Name

Treponemataceae Robinson 1948 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Spirochaetales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Members

genus	Treponema Schaudinn 1905 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Abt et al. 2013
genus	Borrelia Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Margos et al. 2018
genus	Breznakiella Song et al. 2022
genus	Leptospira Noguchi 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Faine and Stallman 1982
genus	Rectinema Koelschbach et al. 2017

Type Status

Taxonomy

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


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Spirochaetota corrig. Garrity and Holt 2021
class Spirochaetia (Cavalier-Smith 2002) Paster 2020
order Spirochaetales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Treponemataceae Robinson 1948 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020

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 family Treponemataceae Robinson 1948 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.17956.

Source File

10.1601/tx.17956.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 9, 2021.

References

Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR. Family II. Treponemataceae Robinson, 1948. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, Seventh Edition, The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1957, p. 896-913.
Song Y, Hervé V, Radek R, Pfeiffer F, Zheng H, Brune A. Characterization and phylogenomic analysis of Breznakiella homolactica gen. nov. sp. nov. indicate that termite gut treponemes evolved from non-acetogenic spirochetes in cockroaches. Environ Microbiol 2021; 23:4228-4245. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15600 [PubMed].
Hördt A, García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Weinhold L-M, Gronow S, Kyrpides N, Woyke T, Schleuning M, Göker M. Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria. Front. Microbio. 2020; 11:468. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2020.00468 [PubMed].