Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.7831

Name

Borrelia lusitaniae Le Fleche et al. 1997

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

PotiB2^T (=DSM 107168 =CIP 105366)

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 lusitaniae Le Fleche et al. 1997

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 lusitaniae Le Fleche et al. 1997. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7831.

Source File

10.1601/tx.7831.xml

References

Le Fleche A, Postic D, Girardet K, Peter O, Baranton G. Characterization of Borrelia lusitaniae sp. nov. by 16S ribosomal DNA sequence analysis. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1997; 47:921-925. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-47-4-921 [PubMed].