Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.7813
Name
 Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Margos et al. 2018
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Gupta et al. 2014
Members
(Sakharoff 1891) Bergey et al. 1925 (Approved Lists 1980)
Ehounoud et al. 2016
Canica et al. 1994
Fotso Fotso et al. 2015
Rudenko et al. 2010
Marconi et al. 1995
Karimi et al. 1983
Margos et al. 2013 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Margos et al. 2016 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Davis 1952 (Approved Lists 1980)
Johnson et al. 1984 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Postic et al. 2016
Rudenko et al. 2011
(Kandelaki 1945) Davis 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)
Johnson et al. 1987 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
(Leger 1917) Davis 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)
(Mazzotti 1949) Davis 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)
(Novy and Knapp 1906) Bergey et al. 1925 (Approved Lists 1980)
Qiu et al. 2019
Casjens et al. 2011
Baranton et al. 1992
(Heisch 1953) Davis 1957 (Approved Lists 1980)
(Garnham 1947) Davis 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)
(Davis 1942) Steinhaus 1946 (Approved Lists 1980)
(de Buen 1926) Steinhaus 1946 (Approved Lists 1980)
(sic) Muñoz-Leal et al. 2020
Ehounoud et al. 2016
Kawabata et al. 1994
Schwan et al. 2009
Fingerle et al. 2016
Margos et al. 2014
Margos et al. 2017
(Sofiev 1941) Davis 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)
Barbour et al. 1996
Le Fleche et al. 1997
Binetruy et al. 2020
Margos et al. 2020
(sic) Pritt et al. 2016 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Davis 1956 (Approved Lists 1980)
Fukunaga et al. 1995
Mitani et al. 2004
(Davis 1942) Steinhaus 1946 (Approved Lists 1980)
(Dschunkowsky 1913) Steinhaus 1946 emend. Karimi et al. 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)
(ex Carley and Pope 1962) Cutler et al. 2017
(Lebert 1874) Bergey et al. 1925 (Approved Lists 1980)
Masuzawa et al. 2001
Richter et al. 2006
Loh et al. 2017
Fukunaga et al. 1997
Lin et al. 2005
(Laveran 1903) Bergey et al. 1925 (Approved Lists 1980)
Zumpt and Organ 1961 (Approved Lists 1980)
Güner et al. 2004
(sic) Fukunaga et al. 1997
(Brumpt 1933) Steinhaus 1946 (Approved Lists 1980)
Wang et al. 1997 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
(Brumpt 1921) Brumpt 1922 (Approved Lists 1980)
Margos et al. 2015
None 2015
Type Status
Taxonomy
The taxonomic placement of this genus 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
  Gupta et al. 2014
  Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Margos et al. 2018

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 genus Borrelia Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Margos et al. 2018. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7813.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on November 24, 2021.

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