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Species Treponema isoptericolens

Name: Treponema isoptericolens Dröge et al. 2008

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: i.so.pte’ri.co.lens N.L. pl. neut. n. Isoptera, scientific name of an order which encompasses the termites; L. pres. part. colens, inhabiting; from L. inf. v. colere, to inhabit; N.L. part. adj. isoptericolens, inhabitant of Isoptera, termites

Gender: neuter

Type strain: DSM 18056; JCM 13955; SPIT5

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16S rRNA gene: AM182455 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Droge S, Rachel R, Radek R, Konig H. Treponema isoptericolens sp. nov., a novel spirochaete from the hindgut of the termite Incisitermes tabogae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1079-1083.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 58, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1783-1784.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

Parent taxon: Treponema Schaudinn 1905 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Droge S, Rachel R, Radek R, Konig H. Treponema isoptericolens sp. nov., a novel spirochaete from the hindgut of the termite Incisitermes tabogae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:1079-1083.

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Record number: 782837