Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.7907

Name

Leptonema Hovind-Hougen 1983

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

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

Members

species	Leptonema illini Hovind-Hougen 1983 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus 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
genus Leptonema Hovind-Hougen 1983

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 Leptonema Hovind-Hougen 1983. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7907.

Source File

10.1601/tx.7907.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 8, 2009.

References

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].