Taxon DOI
10.1601/tx.7893
Name
 Noguchi 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Faine and Stallman 1982
Taxonomic Rank
genus
Methodology
Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]
Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)
Parent
Taxon RecordName Record
Hovind-Hougen 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Levett et al. 2005
Members
(Stimson 1907) Wenyon 1926 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Korba et al. 2021
Thibeaux et al. 2020
Korba et al. 2021
Korba et al. 2021
Brenner et al. 1999 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Smythe et al. 2013 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2020
Thibeaux et al. 2020
(Wolbach and Binger 1914) Noguchi 1918 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Yasuda et al. 1987
Vincent et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2020
Thibeaux et al. 2020
Levett et al. 2006
Korba et al. 2021
Vincent et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2020
Masuzawa et al. 2019
Thibeaux et al. 2020
Perolat et al. 1998 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2019
Vincent et al. 2020
Thibeaux et al. 2020
Thibeaux et al. 2020
Thibeaux et al. 2020
Saito et al. 2013
Vincent et al. 2020
Yasuda et al. 1987 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2020
Masuzawa et al. 2019
Vincent et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2020
Ramadass et al. 1992 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Slack et al. 2009 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2020
(sic) Vincent et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2020
Thibeaux et al. 2020
Matthias et al. 2009 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Thibeaux et al. 2018
Bourhy et al. 2014
Yasuda et al. 1987 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2020
Thibeaux et al. 2020
Yasuda et al. 1987 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2020
Hovind-Hougen et al. 1982
Vincent et al. 2020
Thibeaux et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2020
Masuzawa et al. 2019
Thibeaux et al. 2020
Yasuda et al. 1987 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2020
Casanovas-Massana et al. 2020
Smythe et al. 2013 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Vincent et al. 2020
Smythe et al. 2013 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Puche et al. 2018
Yasuda et al. 1987
Yasuda et al. 1987 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Slack et al. 2008 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Smythe et al. 2013 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
Casanovas-Massana et al. 2020
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
  Gupta et al. 2014
  Hovind-Hougen 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Levett et al. 2005
  Noguchi 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Faine and Stallman 1982

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 Leptospira Noguchi 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Faine and Stallman 1982. Retrieved . https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7893.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on January 11, 2022.

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