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Subphylum "Leptospirae"
Name: "Leptospirae" Cavalier-Smith 1998
Original publication:
Cavalier-Smith T. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 1998; 73:203-266. 
Nomenclatural status: not validly published
Taxonomic status: preferred name (not correct name)
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Notes:
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🧕 Cavalier-Smith (1998) assigned this subphylum to the phylum "Spirochaetae" (Ehrenberg 1855) Cavalier-Smith 1998.
Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 1998; 73:203-266.
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🧒 Cavalier-Smith (1998) assigned the genus Leptospira Noguchi 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) to this subphylum.
Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 1998; 73:203-266.
- 😟 A nomenclatural type has not been designated.
- 😵 The taxonomic category of this name is not currently in use in the LPSN hierarchy. For this reason, this name does not have a parent taxon and does not have child taxa.
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🧕 Cavalier-Smith (1998) assigned this subphylum to the phylum "Spirochaetae" (Ehrenberg 1855) Cavalier-Smith 1998.
Publication:
Cavalier-Smith T. A revised six-kingdom system of life. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 1998; 73:203-266.
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Record number: 29262
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