Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.7892

Name

Leptospiraceae Hovind-Hougen 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Levett et al. 2005

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Leptospiriales Gupta et al. 2014

Members

genus	Leptospira Noguchi 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Faine and Stallman 1982
genus	Leptonema Hovind-Hougen 1983
genus	Turneriella Levett et al. 2005

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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 Leptospiriales Gupta et al. 2014
family Leptospiraceae Hovind-Hougen 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Levett et al. 2005

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 Leptospiraceae Hovind-Hougen 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Levett et al. 2005. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7892.

Source File

10.1601/tx.7892.xml


This information was last reviewed on March 3, 2017.

References

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Hovind-Hougen K. Leptospiraceae, a new family to include Leptospira Noguchi 1917 and Leptonema gen. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1979; 29:245-251. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-29-3-245.
Levett PN, Morey RE, Galloway R, Steigerwalt AG, Ellis WA. Reclassification of Leptospira parva Hovind-Hougen et al. 1982 as Turneriella parva gen. nov., comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1497-1499. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.63088-0 [PubMed].
Gupta RS, Mahmood S, Adeolu M. A phylogenomic and molecular signature based approach for characterization of the phylum Spirochaetes and its major clades: proposal for a taxonomic revision of the phylum. Front. Microbio. 2013; 4:217. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2013.00217 [PubMed].