Genus Cristispira
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Number of species, including synonyms, cited in this file: 1
Number of subspecies, including synonyms, cited in this file: 0
Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").
For a detailed description of this taxon see Bergey’s Manual of Systematics of Archaea and Bacteria (BMSAB).
Cristispira Gross 1910, genus.
Type species: ¤ Cristispira pectinis Gross 1910 (Approved Lists 1980).
Etymology: L. fem. n. crista, a crest; L. fem. n. spira, a coil; N.L. fem. n. Cristispira, a crested coil.
Approved Lists reference: SKERMAN (V.B.D.), McGOWAN (V.) and SNEATH (P.H.A.) (editors): Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1980, 30, 225-420 (Approved Lists of Bacterial Names in IJSEM Online - Approved Lists of Bacterial Names Amended edition).
Original publication: GROSS (J.): Cristispira nov. gen. Ein Beitragzur Spirachätenfrage. Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel, 1910, 20, 41-93.
Cristispira pectinis Gross 1910, species. (Type species of the genus.)
Type strain: (see also Global Catalogue of Microorganisms) no culture isolated.
Sequence accession no. (16S rRNA gene) for the type strain: not available.
Synonym: "Spirochaeta pectinis" (Gross 1910) Bosanquet 1911.
Etymology: L. n. pecten, a kind of shell-fish, a scallop, and also a genus of mollusks (Pecten); L. gen. n. pectinis, of a scallop, of Pecten.
Approved Lists reference: SKERMAN (V.B.D.), McGOWAN (V.) and SNEATH (P.H.A.) (editors): Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1980, 30, 225-420 (Approved Lists of Bacterial Names in IJSEM Online - Approved Lists of Bacterial Names Amended edition).
Original publication: GROSS (J.): Cristispira nov. gen. Ein Beitragzur Spirachätenfrage. Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel, 1910, 20, 41-93.