Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.7845

Name

Brevinema Defosse et al. 1995

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	Brevinemataceae Paster 2012

Members

species	Brevinema andersonii Defosse et al. 1995 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 Brevinematales Gupta et al. 2014
family Brevinemataceae Paster 2012
genus Brevinema Defosse et al. 1995

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 Brevinema Defosse et al. 1995. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7845.

Source File

10.1601/tx.7845.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 27, 2009.

References

Paster BJ. Family III. Brevinemataceae fam. nov. In: Krieg NR, Staley JT, Brown DR, Hedlund BP, Paster BJ, Ward NL, Ludwig W, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 4, Springer, New York, 2010, p. 545.
Defosse DL, Johnson RC, Paster BJ, Dewhirst FE, Fraser GJ. Brevinema andersonii gen. nov., sp. nov., an infectious spirochete isolated from the short-tailed shrew (Blarina brevicauda) and the white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus). Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:78-84. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-45-1-78 [PubMed].