Genus Treponema

Name: Treponema Schaudinn 1905 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. v. trepô, to turn; Gr. neut. n. nêma, a thread; N.L. neut. n. Treponema, a turning thread

Gender: neuter

Type species: Treponema pallidum (Schaudinn and Hoffmann 1905) Schaudinn 1905 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Schaudinn F. Korrespondenzen. Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift 1905; 31:1728.

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

Emendations:
- Abt et al. 2013 Abt B, Goker M, Scheuner C, Han C, Lu M, Misra M, Lapidus A, Nolan M, Lucas S, Hammon N, et al. Genome sequence of the thermophilic fresh-water bacterium Spirochaeta caldaria type strain (H1^T), reclassification of Spirochaeta caldaria, Spirochaeta stenostrepta, and Spirochaeta zuelzerae in the genus Treponema as Treponema caldaria comb. nov., Treponema stenostrepta comb. nov., and Treponema zuelzerae comb. nov., and emendation of the genus Treponema. Stand Genomic Sci 2013; 8:88-105. Oren A, Garrity GM. List of changes in taxonomic opinion no. 19. Notification of changes in taxonomic opinion previously published outside the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2014; 64:8-10.
  Notes:
  - Emendation accompanied by the proposal of 3 new species in the genus.

Notes:
- Nomenclatural type of the family Treponemataceae Robinson 1948 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Robinson GH. Family II. Treponemataceae Schaudinn. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed., The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1948, p. 1051-1058.
- Gupta et al. (2013) assigned this genus to the family Spirochaetaceae Swellengrebel 1907 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: 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.
- The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Spirochaeta Ehrenberg 1835 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Schaudinn F, Hoffmann E. Vorläufiger Bericht über das Vorkommen von Spirochaeten in syphilitischen Krankheitsprodukten und bei Papillomen. Arbeiten aus dem Kaiserlichen Gesundheitsamte (Berlin) 1905; 22:528-534.
- This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Deponema"; "Lreponema"; "Teponema"; "Trapanema"; "Trcponema"; "Trelponema"; "Trepanema"; "Trepcmema"; "Trepmzema"; "Trepnema"; "Trepnnema"; "Trepomma"; "Trepomzma"; "Treponcma"; "Treponeina"; "Treponemca"; "Treponemna"; "Treponemo"; "Treponenza"; "Treponmea"; "Treponoma"; "Treppnema"; "Trepunema"; "Trgpanema"; "Tteponema"; "Twponema"; "Yreponema".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 29
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 31
Total number of child taxa: 52

Child taxa:

Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
Treponema amylovorum Wyss et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Treponema azotonutricium Graber et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Treponema berlinense Nordhoff et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Treponema brennaborense Schrank et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Treponema bryantii Stanton and Canale-Parola 1980	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Treponema caldaria (Pohlschröder et al. 1995) Abt et al. 2013	orthographic variant	misspelling
Treponema caldarium corrig. (Pohlschröder et al. 1995) Abt et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Treponema calligyrum" Noguchi 1913	not validly published
"Treponema carateum" (ex Brumpt 1939) Smibert 1984	not validly published
"Treponema cuniculi" Noguchi 1922	not validly published
Treponema denticola (ex Flügge 1886) Chan et al. 1993	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Treponema hyodysenteriae Harris et al. 1972 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
Treponema innocens Kinyon and Harris 1979 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
"Candidatus Treponema intracellulare" corrig. Ohkuma et al. 2015	not validly published
"Candidatus Treponema intracellularis" Ohkuma et al. 2015	orthographic variant
Treponema isoptericolens Dröge et al. 2008	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Treponema lecithinolyticum Wyss et al. 1999	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Treponema macrodentium" Noguchi 1912	not validly published
Treponema maltophilum Wyss et al. 1996	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Treponema medium Umemoto et al. 1997	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Treponema microdentium" Noguchi 1912	not validly published
Treponema minutum Dobell 1912 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Treponema mucosum" Noguchi 1912	not validly published
Treponema pallidum (Schaudinn and Hoffmann 1905) Schaudinn 1905 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Treponema paraluiscuniculi corrig. (Jacobsthal 1920) Smibert 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Treponema paraluisleporidarum" Lumeij et al. 2013	not validly published
"Treponema paraluisleporis" Lumeij et al. 1994	not validly published
Treponema parvum Wyss et al. 2001	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Treponema pectinovorum Smibert and Burmeister 1983	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Treponema pedis Evans et al. 2009	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Treponema pertenue (Castellani 1905) Castellani and Chalmers 1910 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Treponema phagedenis" (ex Brumpt 1922) Smibert 1984	not validly published
Treponema phagedenis (ex Brumpt 1922) Kuhnert et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Treponema porcinum Nordhoff et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Treponema primitia Graber et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Treponema putidum Wyss et al. 2004	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Treponema rectale Staton et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Treponema refringens" (ex Castellani and Chalmers 1919) Smibert 1984	not validly published
Treponema ruminis Newbrook et al. 2017	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Treponema saccharophilum Paster and Canale-Parola 1986	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Treponema scoliodontum" (ex Noguchi 1928) Smibert 1984	not validly published
Treponema socranskii Smibert et al. 1984	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Treponema stenostrepta (Zuelzer 1912) Abt et al. 2013	orthographic variant	misspelling
Treponema stenostreptum corrig. (Zuelzer 1912) Abt et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
Treponema succinifaciens Cwyk and Canale-Parola 1981	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
"Treponema suis" Kujumgiev and Spassova 1967	not validly published
"Candidatus Treponema teratonymphae" Noda et al. 2018	not validly published
"Treponema venezuelense" Brumpt 1921	not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists
"Treponema vincentii" (ex Brumpt 1922) Smibert 1984	not validly published
"Treponema zioleckii" Piknova et al. 2008	not validly published
"Treponema zuelzerae" Veldkamp 1960	not validly published
Treponema zuelzerae (Canale-Parola 1980) Abt et al. 2013	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Treponemataceae Robinson 1948 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Robinson GH. Family II. Treponemataceae Schaudinn. In: Breed RS, Murray EGD, Hitchens AP (eds), Bergey’s Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 6th ed., The Williams and Wilkins Co., Baltimore, 1948, p. 1051-1058.

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