Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.7870

Name

Treponema parvum Wyss et al. 2001

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	Treponema Schaudinn 1905 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Abt et al. 2013

Type Strain

representative organism

OMZ 833^T (=DSM 16260 =ATCC 700770)

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 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 Treponemataceae Robinson 1948 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Hördt et al. 2020
genus Treponema Schaudinn 1905 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Abt et al. 2013
species Treponema parvum Wyss et al. 2001

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 Treponema parvum Wyss et al. 2001. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7870.

Source File

10.1601/tx.7870.xml

References

Wyss C, Dewhirst FE, Gmür R, Thurnheer T, Xue Y, Schüpbach P, Guggenheim B, Paster BJ. Treponema parvum sp. nov., a small, glucoronic or galacturonic acid-dependent oral spirochaete from lesions of human periodontitis and acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2001; 51:955-962. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-51-3-955 [PubMed].