Family Leptospiraceae
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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).
Leptospiraceae Hovind-Hougen 1979, familia.
Type genus: ¤ Leptospira Noguchi 1917 (Approved Lists 1980).
Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Leptospira, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Leptospiraceae, the Leptospira family.
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: HOVIND-HOUGEN (K.): Leptospiraceae, a new family to include Leptospira Noguchi 1917 and Leptonema gen. nov. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, 1979, 29, 245-251.
Note: On the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names, this nomenclatural name is incorrectly cited as Leptospiraceae Hovind-Houger (sic) 1978 (sic) [1]. This corrigendum has been omitted from the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names (Amended Edition) [2].
References:
1 HILL (L.R.), SKERMAN (V.B.D.) and SNEATH (P.H.A.): Corrigenda to the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names edited for the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1984, 34, 508-511.
Original article in IJSEM Online
2 EUZÉBY (J.P.): Corrigenda to the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names and to the amended edition of the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1997, 47, 1271-1272.
Original article in IJSEM Online
→ Leptospiraceae Hovind-Hougen 1979 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Levett et al. 2005.
Type genus: ¤ Leptospira Noguchi 1917 (Approved Lists 1980).
Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Leptospira, type genus of the family; suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Leptospiraceae, the Leptospira family.
Reference: LEVETT (P.N.), MOREY (R.E.), GALLOWAY (R.), STEIGERWALT (A.G.) and ELLIS (W.A.): 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.
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