Genus Cristispira

Name: Cristispira Gross 1910 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category, proposed as: genus, gen. nov.

Etymology: Cris.ti.spi’ra. L. fem. n. crista, a crest; Gr. fem. n. speîra, a coil; N.L. fem. n. Cristispira, a crested coil

Gender, pronunciation (Latin): feminine (stem: Cristispir-), kris-ti-SPI-ra

Type species: Cristispira pectinis Gross 1910 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Gross J. Cristispira nov. gen. Ein Beitragzur Spirachätenfrage. Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel 1910; 20:41-93.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Bergey et al. (1923) assigned this genus to the family Spirochaetaceae Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Bergey DH, Harrison FC, Breed RS, Hammer BW, Huntoon FM. Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 1st ed. The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1923.
  • 🧕 Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family Spirochaetaceae Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980). 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. 🇺🇸
  • 🧕 Breed et al. (1948) assigned this genus to the family Spirochaetaceae Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Burkholder WH. Genus I. Pseudomonas Migula. Bacterial plant pathogens. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed., The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1948, p. 82-150.
  • 🧕 Breed et al. (1957) assigned this genus to the family Spirochaetaceae Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Parker CD. Genus V. Thiobacillus Beijerinck 1904. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Smith NR (eds), Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 7th edition, The Williams & Wilkins Co, Baltimore, 1957, p. 83-88.
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Crfotispira"; "Criscispira"; "Crislispira"; "Cristospira"; "Criszispira"; "Oristispira".
  • 💥 This name is a homonym of Cristispira Allison, 1965 (zoological) [from Catalogue of Life].
  • 🧍 Pittman et al. (1991) suggested the abbreviation "CRSP" for this genus name but this does not appear to be of practical relevance any longer. Publication: Pittman KF, Walczak CA, Lock CM. Codes and abbreviations for approved of effectively published names of genera of bacteria published from January 1980 to December 1990. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:571-579.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Cristispira interrogationis" Gross 1910	not validly published	preferred name
    Cristispira pectinis Gross 1910 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Borreliaceae Gupta et al. 2014

Assigned by: Gupta RS, Mahmood S, Adeolu M. Erratum: 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; 4:322. 🇨🇦

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