Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.595

Name

Leptospirillum (ex Markosyan 1972) Hippe 2000

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	Nitrospiraceae Garrity and Holt 2001

Members

species	Leptospirillum ferrooxidans (ex Markosyan 1972) Hippe 2000
species	Leptospirillum ferriphilum Coram and Rawlings 2002 emend. García-López et al. 2019
species	Leptospirillum thermoferrooxidans Hippe 2000

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 Nitrospirota corrig. Garrity and Holt 2021
class Nitrospira Garrity and Holt 2001 non Nitrospira Watson et al. 1986
order Nitrospirales Garrity and Holt 2001
family Nitrospiraceae Garrity and Holt 2001
genus Leptospirillum (ex Markosyan 1972) Hippe 2000

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 Leptospirillum (ex Markosyan 1972) Hippe 2000. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.595.

Source File

10.1601/tx.595.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 8, 2009.

References

Garrity GM, Holt JG. Genus II. Leptospirillum gen. nov. In: Garrity GM, Boone DR, Castenholz RW (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 1, Springer, New York, 2001, p. 453.
Hippe H. Leptospirillum gen. nov. (ex Markosyan 1972), nom. rev., including Leptospirillum ferrooxidans sp. nov. (ex Markosyan 1972), nom. rev. and Leptospirillum thermoferrooxidans sp. nov. (Golovacheva et al. 1992). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2000; 50:501-503. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-50-2-501 [PubMed].
Coram NJ, Rawlings DE. Molecular relationship between two groups of the genus Leptospirillum and the finding that Leptospirillum ferriphilum sp. nov. dominates South African commercial biooxidation tanks that operate at 40 degrees C. Appl Environ Microbiol 2002; 68:838-845. [PubMed].