Phylum "Spirochaetes"

Name: "Spirochaetes" Garrity and Holt 2001

Category: Phylum

Proposed as: phyl. nov.

Etymology: Spi.ro.chae’tes. N.L. fem. pl. n. Spirochaetales, type order of the phylum, ending to denote a phylum; N.L. fem. pl. n. Spirochaetes, phylum of Spirochaetales (inaccurate nominative plural of Spirochaeta)

Gender: feminine

Type class: "Spirochaetia" Cavalier-Smith 2020

Original 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.

Nomenclatural status: not validly published

Taxonomic status: synonym (and no standing)

Correct name: Spirochaetota Garrity and Holt 2021

Parent taxon: Pseudomonadati (Gibbons and Murray 1978) Oren and Göker 2024

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. — Goker M, Oren A. Valid publication of names of two domains and seven kingdoms of prokaryotes. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74:6242.

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Record number: 933
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