Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.36259

Name

Borrelia maritima Margos et al. 2020

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	Borrelia Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Margos et al. 2018

Type Strain

representative organism

CA690^T (=DSM 107169 =ATCC TSD-160)

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 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 Borreliaceae Gupta et al. 2014
genus Borrelia Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Margos et al. 2018
species Borrelia maritima Margos 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 species Borrelia maritima Margos et al. 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.36259.

Source File

10.1601/tx.36259.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 9, 2020.

References

Margos G, Fedorova N, Becker NS, Kleinjan JE, Marosevic D, Krebs S, Hui L, Fingerle V, Lane RS. Borrelia maritima sp. nov., a novel species of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex, occupying a basal position to North American species. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:849-856. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003833 [PubMed].