Name: Leptonemataceae Chuvochina et al. 2024

Category: Family

Proposed as: fam. nov.

Etymology: Lep.to.ne.ma.ta.ce’ae. N.L. neut. n. Leptonema, type genus of the family; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -aceae, ending to denote a family; N.L. fem. pl. n. Leptonemataceae, family of the genus Leptonema

Gender: feminine

Type genus: Leptonema Hovind-Hougen 1983

Effective publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 215. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6173.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Leptospiraceae Hovind-Hougen 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Turneriellaceae Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Leptospiraceae Hovind-Hougen 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧒 Chuvochina et al. (2023) assigned the genus Leptonema Hovind-Hougen 1983 to this family. Publication: Chuvochina M, Mussig AJ, Chaumeil PA, Skarshewski A, Rinke C, Parks DH, Hugenholtz P. Proposal of names for 329 higher rank taxa defined in the Genome Taxonomy Database under two prokaryotic codes. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2023; 0:0.
  • 🛺 The type genus of this family has been placed in the family Leptospiraceae Hovind-Hougen 1979 (Approved Lists 1980). 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.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Septonemataceae".
  • ❗ Leptonemataceae is the correct name instead if this family is regarded as a separate family (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another family whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).

Parent taxon: Leptospirales Gupta et al. 2014

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — 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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Record number: 43570