Name: Streptobacillus Levaditi et al. 1925 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. adj. streptos, twisted, curved; L. masc. n. bacillus, a small rod; N.L. masc. n. Streptobacillus, a twisted or curved small rod

Gender: masculine

Type species: Streptobacillus moniliformis Levaditi et al. 1925 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Levaditi C, Nicolau S, Poincloux P. Sur le rôle étiologique de Streptobacillus moniliformis (nov. spec.) dans l'érythème polymorphe aigu septicémique. Compte Rendu Hebdomadaire des Séances de l'Académie des Sciences (Paris) 1925; 180:1188-1190.

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:
  • Woo et al. 2014 Woo PC, Wu AK, Tsang CC, Leung KW, Ngan AH, Curreem SO, Lam KW, Chen JH, Chan JF, Lau SK. Streptobacillus hongkongensis sp. nov., isolated from patients with quinsy and septic arthritis, and emended descriptions of the genus Streptobacillus and Streptobacillus moniliformis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:3034-3039. 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.
  • Eisenberg et al. 2015 Eisenberg T, Glaeser SP, Ewers C, Semmler T, Nicklas W, Rau J, Mauder N, Hofmann N, Imaoka K, Kimura M, et al. Streptobacillus notomytis sp. nov., isolated from a spinifex hopping mouse (Notomys alexis Thomas, 1922), and emended description of Streptobacillus Levaditi et al. 1925, Eisenberg et al. 2015 emend. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2015; 65:4823-4829. Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 65, part 12 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:1600-1602.
    Notes:
    • Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 1 new species in the genus.

• Notes:
  • Boone et al. (2001) assigned this genus to the family "Fusobacteriaceae". 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. (1957) assigned this genus to the family Bacteroidaceae Pribram 1933 (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 was discussed in a meeting of a Taxonomic Subcommittee of the ICSP. Publication: Olsen I, Shah HN. International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the taxonomy of Gram-negative anaerobic rods. Minutes of the meeting, 29 July 2002, Paris, France. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2003; 53:923-924.
  • Recommended reviewers for taxonomic proposals in this group are the corresponding authors of Eisenberg et al. (2020).

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 5
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 6
Total number of child taxa: 6

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Streptobacillus canis Eisenberg et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
    Streptobacillus felis Eisenberg et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
    Streptobacillus hongkongensis Woo et al. 2014	validly published	synonym
    Streptobacillus moniliformis Levaditi et al. 1925 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Streptobacillus notomytis Eisenberg et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
    Streptobacillus ratti Eisenberg et al. 2016	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: Leptotrichiaceae Staley and Whitman 2012

Assigned by: Staley JT, Whitman WB. Family II. Leptotrichiaceae fam. nov. 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. 766.

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