Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.7801

Name

Spirochaeta americana Hoover et al. 2003

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	Spirochaeta Ehrenberg 1835 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Shivani et al. 2015

Type Strain

representative organism

ASpG1^T (=ATCC BAA-392 =DSM 14872)

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 Spirochaetaceae Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Spirochaeta Ehrenberg 1835 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Shivani et al. 2015
species Spirochaeta americana Hoover et al. 2003

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 Spirochaeta americana Hoover et al. 2003. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7801.

Source File

10.1601/tx.7801.xml

References

Hoover RB, Pikuta EV, Bej AK, Marsic D, Whitman WB, Tang J, Krader P. Spirochaeta americana sp. nov., a new haloalkaliphilic, obligately anaerobic spirochaete isolated from soda Mono Lake in California. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2003; 53:815-821. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02535-0 [PubMed].