Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.9166

Name

Serpula Stanton et al. 1991

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	Brachyspiraceae Paster 2012

Members

species	Serpula hyodysenteriae (Harris et al. 1972) Stanton et al. 1991
species	Serpula innocens (Kinyon and Harris 1979) Stanton et al. 1991

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 Spirochaetales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Brachyspiraceae Paster 2012
genus Serpula Stanton et al. 1991

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 Serpula Stanton et al. 1991. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.9166.

Source File

10.1601/tx.9166.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 22, 2009.

References

Paster BJ. Family II. Brachyspiraceae. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 531.
Stanton TB, Jensen NS, Casey TA, Tordoff LA, Dewhirst FE, Paster BJ. Reclassification of Treponema hyodysenteriae and Treponema innocens in a new genus, Serpula gen. nov., as Serpula hyodysenteriae comb. nov. and Serpula innocens comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:50-58. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-41-1-50 [PubMed].