Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.7796
Name
 Swellengrebel 1907 (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 RecordName Record
Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Members
Ehrenberg 1835 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Shivani et al. 2015
Sravanthi et al. 2016
Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Margos et al. 2018
Wylensek et al. 2021
Bermudes et al. 1988
Gross 1910 emend. Kuhn 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
(Gharagozlou 1968) Bermudes et al. 1988
(ex To and Margulis 1978) Bermudes et al. 1988
Noguchi 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Faine and Stallman 1982
Shivani et al. 2017
Subhash and Lee 2017
(ex Hollande and Gharagozlou 1967) Bermudes et al. 1988
Arroua et al. 2017
Koelschbach et al. 2017
Ben Hania et al. 2015
Gross 1911 emend. Lewin and Leadbetter 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
Shivani et al. 2016
Ritalahti et al. 2012 emend. Bidzhieva et al. 2020
(sic) Sikutová et al. 2010
Dubinina et al. 2020
Schaudinn 1905 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Abt et al. 2013
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this family within the root Universal Root.
  Woese et al. 1990
  (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
  corrig. Garrity and Holt 2021
  (Cavalier-Smith 2002) Paster 2020
  Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
  Swellengrebel 1907 (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 Spirochaetaceae Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7796.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on April 27, 2021.

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