Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.4795

Name

Spiroplasma leptinotarsae Hackett et al. 1996

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Spiroplasma Saglio et al. 1973 emend. Freundt 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

LD-1^T (=ATCC 43213)

Type Status

Taxonomy

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


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Mycoplasmatota corrig. Murray 2021
class Mollicutes Edward and Freundt 1967 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019
order Mycoplasmatales Freundt 1955 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Gupta et al. 2019
family Spiroplasmataceae (ex Skripal' 1974) Skripal' 1983
genus Spiroplasma Saglio et al. 1973 emend. Freundt 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Spiroplasma leptinotarsae Hackett et al. 1996

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 species Spiroplasma leptinotarsae Hackett et al. 1996. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.4795.

Source File

10.1601/tx.4795.xml

References

Hackett KJ, Whitcomb RF, Clark TB, Henegar RB, Lynn DE, Wagner AG, Tully JG, Gasparich GE, Rose DL, Carle P, Bové JM, Konai M, Clark EA, Adams JR, Williamson DL. Spiroplasma leptinotarsae sp. nov., a mollicute uniquely adapted to its host, the Colorado Potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Int J Syst Bacteriol 1996; 46:906-911. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-46-4-906.