Name: Spirosoma Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. fem. n. speîra, coil; Gr. neut. n. sôma, body; N.L. neut. n. Spirosoma, coiled body

Gender: neuter

Type species: Spirosoma linguale Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980)

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16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Migula W. Über ein neues System der Bakterien. Arbeiten aus dem Bakteriologischen Institut der Technischen Hochschule zu Karlsruhe 1894; 1:235-238.

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

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Emendations:
  • Larkin et al. 1977 Larkin JM, Williams PM, Taylor R. Taxonomy of the genus Microcyclus Ørskov 1928: Reintroduction and emendation of the genus Spirosoma Migula 1894 and proposal of a new genus, Flectobacillus. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1977; 27:147-156. Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.
  • Finster et al. 2009 Finster KW, Herbert RA, Lomstein BA. Spirosoma spitsbergense sp. nov. and Spirosoma luteum sp. nov., isolated from a high Arctic permafrost soil, and emended description of the genus Spirosoma. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:839-844. Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 59, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2009; 59:1557-1558.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 2 new species in the genus.
  • Ahn et al. 2014 Ahn JH, Weon HY, Kim SJ, Hong SB, Seok SJ, Kwon SW. Spirosoma oryzae sp. nov., isolated from rice soil and emended description of the genus Spirosoma. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3230-3234. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 64, part 9 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3923-3925.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family Spirosomaceae Larkin and Borrall 1978 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Larkin JM, Borrall R. Spirosomaceae, a New Family to Contain the Genera Spirosoma Migula 1894, Flectobacillus Larkin et al. 1977, and Runella Larkin and Williams 1978. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1978; 28:595-596.
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family "Flexibacteraceae" Garrity and Holt 2001. 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.
  • Joo et al. (2015) assigned this genus to the family Cytophagaceae Stanier 1940 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Joo ES, Lee JJ, Cha S, Jheong W, Seo T, Lim S, Jeong SW, Srinivasan S. Spirosoma pulveris sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from a dust sample collected at Chungnam province, South Korea. J Microbiol 2015; 53:750-755.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 38
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 38
Total number of child taxa: 44

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Spirosoma aerolatum Kim et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma aerophilum Kim et al. 2016	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma agri Li et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma arcticum Chang et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
    "Spirosoma areae" Jang et al. 2017	not validly published
    Spirosoma carri Kim et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma daeguense corrig. Elderiny et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma daeguensis (sic) Elderiny et al. 2017	misspelling	synonym
    Spirosoma endophyticum Fries et al. 2013	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma flavum Zou et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
    "Spirosoma flavus" Elderiny et al. 2017	not validly published
    Spirosoma fluminis Lee et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma fluviale Hatayama and Kuno 2015	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma gilvum Lee et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma harenae Ten et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma horti Li et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma humi Weilan et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma jeollabukense Li et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma knui Lee et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma koreense Ten et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma lacussanchae Li et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma linguale Migula 1894 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma litoris Okiria et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma lituiforme Li et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma luteolum Lee et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma luteum Finster et al. 2009	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma metallicum corrig. Lee et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma metallicus (sic) Lee et al. 2018	misspelling	synonym
    Spirosoma metallilatum Kim et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    "Spirosoma metallum" Kim et al. 2018	not validly published
    Spirosoma migulaei Okiria et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma montaniterrae Lee et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma oryzae Ahn et al. 2014	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma panaciterrae Ten et al. 2009	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma pollinicola Ambika Manirajan et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma pomorum Li et al. 2018	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma pulveris Joo et al. 2016	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma radiotolerans Lee et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma rigui Baik et al. 2007	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma soli Yang et al. 2016	validly published	correct name
    "Spirosoma sordidisoli" Zhang et al. 2019	not validly published
    Spirosoma spitsbergense Finster et al. 2009	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma swuense Joo et al. 2017	validly published	correct name
    Spirosoma terrae Ten et al. 2018	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: Spirosomaceae Larkin and Borrall 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Garcia-Lopez M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Tindall BJ, Gronow S, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Hahnke RL, Goker M. Analysis of 1,000 Type-Strain Genomes Improves Taxonomic Classification of Bacteroidetes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2083.

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