Name: Winmispirales Podosokorskaya et al. 2025

Category: Order

Proposed as: ord. nov.

Etymology: Win.mi.spi.ra’les. N.L. fem. n. Winmispira, type genus of the order; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -ales, ending to denote an order; N.L. fem. pl. n. Winmispirales, the Winmispira order

Pronunciation, gender: win-mi-spi-RA-les, feminine

Type genus: Winmispira Podosokorskaya et al. 2025

Effective publication: Podosokorskaya OA, Maltseva AI, Elcheninov AG, Novikov AA, Zayulina KS, Merkel AY. Novel thermophilic hydrolytic bacterium Rarispira pelagica gen. nov., sp. nov., reclassification of Spirochaeta thermophila as Winmispira thermophila gen. nov., comb. nov., and proposal of Winmispiraceae fam. nov. and Winmispirales ord. nov. in the class Spirochaetia. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126604.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Validation list no. 224. List of new names and new combinations previously effectively, but not validly, published. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6801.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Spirochaetales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Borreliales Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Spirochaetales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980)	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Sphaerochaetales Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Treponematales Chuvochina et al. 2024	heterotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧕 Podosokorskaya et al. (2025) assigned this order to the class Spirochaetia Paster 2020. Publication: Podosokorskaya OA, Maltseva AI, Elcheninov AG, Novikov AA, Zayulina KS, Merkel AY. Novel thermophilic hydrolytic bacterium Rarispira pelagica gen. nov., sp. nov., reclassification of Spirochaeta thermophila as Winmispira thermophila gen. nov., comb. nov., and proposal of Winmispiraceae fam. nov. and Winmispirales ord. nov. in the class Spirochaetia. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126604.
  • 🧒 Podosokorskaya et al. (2025) assigned the family Winmispiraceae Podosokorskaya et al. 2025 to this order. Publication: Podosokorskaya OA, Maltseva AI, Elcheninov AG, Novikov AA, Zayulina KS, Merkel AY. Novel thermophilic hydrolytic bacterium Rarispira pelagica gen. nov., sp. nov., reclassification of Spirochaeta thermophila as Winmispira thermophila gen. nov., comb. nov., and proposal of Winmispiraceae fam. nov. and Winmispirales ord. nov. in the class Spirochaetia. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126604.
  • 🧒 Podosokorskaya et al. (2025) assigned the genus Winmispira Podosokorskaya et al. 2025 to this order. Publication: Podosokorskaya OA, Maltseva AI, Elcheninov AG, Novikov AA, Zayulina KS, Merkel AY. Novel thermophilic hydrolytic bacterium Rarispira pelagica gen. nov., sp. nov., reclassification of Spirochaeta thermophila as Winmispira thermophila gen. nov., comb. nov., and proposal of Winmispiraceae fam. nov. and Winmispirales ord. nov. in the class Spirochaetia. Syst Appl Microbiol 2025; 48:126604.
  • ❗ Winmispirales is the correct name instead if this order is regarded as a separate order (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another order whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority).

Parent taxon: Spirochaetia Paster 2020

Assigned by: LPSN automated production system. The following publication is only one of the sources consulted. It may or may not mention this taxon name. — Paster BJ. Class I. Spirochaetia class. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, et al. (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. The Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, Tenericutes (Mollicutes), Acidobacteria, Fibrobacteres, Fusobacteria, Dictyoglomi, Gemmatimonadetes, Lentisphaerae, Verrucomicrobia, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes, vol. 4, 2nd ed., Springer, New York, 2010, p. 471-563.

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