Name: Brachyspiraceae Paster 2012

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: N.L. fem. n. Brachyspira, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Brachyspiraceae, family of the genus Brachyspira

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Brachyspira Hovind-Hougen et al. 1983

Effective publication: 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, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 531.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 144. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:473-475.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Krieg et al. (2010) assigned this family to the class Spirochaetia Paster 2020. Publication: Paster BJ. Class I. Spirochaetia class. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, et al. (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes, vol. 4, 2nd ed., Springer, New York, 2010, p. 471-563.
  • Krieg et al. (2010) assigned this family to the order Spirochaetales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: 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, 2nd edn, vol. 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 531.
  • The type genus of this family has alternatively been placed in the family "Serpulinaceae". Publication: Garrity GM, Holt JG. The Road Map to the Manual. In: Boone DR, Castenholz RW, Garrity GM (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, second edition, vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria), Springer-Verlag, New York, 2001, p. 119-166.
  • The BRCs most frequently used for deposits in this group are: ATCC: 19; CIP: 8; CCUG: 6; NCTC: 5; DSM: 4.
  • In the effective publication, the type genus is erroneously cited as Brachyspira aalborgi (sic). Publication: Euzeby JP. Validation list no. 144. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:473-475.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 3
Total number of child taxa: 4

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Brachyspira Hovind-Hougen et al. 1983	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    "Candidatus Maribrachyspira" Matsuyama et al. 2017	not validly published	preferred name (not correct name)
    Serpula Stanton et al. 1991	validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name	synonym
    Serpulina Stanton 1992	validly published under the ICNP	synonym

Parent taxon: Brachyspirales Gupta et al. 2014

Assigned by: Gupta RS, Mahmood S, Adeolu M. A phylogenomic and molecular signature based approach for characterization of the phylum Spirochaetes and its major clades: proposal for a taxonomic revision of the phylum. Front Microbiol 2013; 4:217.

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