Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.22801

Name

Sphaerochaeta Ritalahti et al. 2012 emend. Bidzhieva et al. 2020

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Sphaerochaetaceae Hördt et al. 2020 non Sphaerochaetaceae Bidzhieva et al. 2020

Members

species	Sphaerochaeta globosa Ritalahti et al. 2012 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Sphaerochaeta associata Troshina et al. 2015
species	Sphaerochaeta coccoides (Dröge et al. 2006) Abt et al. 2012 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Sphaerochaeta halotolerans Bidzhieva et al. 2020
species	Sphaerochaeta multiformis Miyazaki et al. 2014
species	Sphaerochaeta pleomorpha Ritalahti et al. 2012 emend. Hördt et al. 2020

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Spirochaetota corrig. Garrity and Holt 2021
class Spirochaetia (Cavalier-Smith 2002) Paster 2020
order Spirochaetales Buchanan 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
family Sphaerochaetaceae Hördt et al. 2020 non Sphaerochaetaceae Bidzhieva et al. 2020
genus Sphaerochaeta Ritalahti et al. 2012 emend. Bidzhieva et al. 2020

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Sphaerochaeta Ritalahti et al. 2012 emend. Bidzhieva et al. 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.22801.

Source File

10.1601/tx.22801.xml


This information was last reviewed on August 26, 2020.

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