Name: "Geospirillum" Lonergan et al. 1996

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Gender: neuter (stem: Geospirill-)

Type species: "Geospirillum barnesii" Lonergan et al. 1996

Original publication: Lonergan DJ, Jenter HL, Coates JD, Phillips EJ, Schmidt TM, Lovley DR. Phylogenetic analysis of dissimilatory Fe(III)-reducing bacteria. J Bacteriol 1996; 178:2402-2408.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)

• Notes:
  • 🙄 This taxon name is occasionally misprinted (or affected by an OCR error) in some sources as: "Geospirillium".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 0
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 0
Total number of child taxa: 2

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    "Geospirillum arsenophilum" Heising et al. 1999	not validly published	preferred name
    "Geospirillum barnesii" Lonergan et al. 1996	not validly published	preferred name

Parent taxon: Campylobacteraceae Vandamme and De Ley 1991

Assigned by: Waite DW, Vanwonterghem I, Rinke C, Parks DH, Zhang Y, Takai K, Sievert SM, Simon J, Campbell BJ, Hanson TE, et al. Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Class Epsilonproteobacteria and Proposed Reclassification to Epsilonbacteraeota (phyl. nov.). Front Microbiol 2017; 8:682.

Linking: To permanently link to this page, use https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/geospirillumCopy to clipboardLink copied to clipboard

Record number: 50738