Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.7886

Name

Brachyspira Hovind-Hougen et al. 1983

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	Brachyspiraceae Paster 2012

Members

species	Brachyspira aalborgi Hovind-Hougen et al. 1983
species	Brachyspira alvinipulli Stanton et al. 1998 emend. Hördt et al. 2020 pro synon. Serpulina alvinipulli Stanton et al. 1998
species	Brachyspira hampsonii Mirajkar et al. 2017
species	Brachyspira hyodysenteriae (Stanton 1992) Ochiai et al. 1998 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Brachyspira innocens (Kinyon and Harris 1979) Ochiai et al. 1998 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Brachyspira intermedia (Stanton et al. 1997) Hampson and La 2006 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Brachyspira murdochii (Stanton et al. 1997) Hampson and La 2006
species	Brachyspira pilosicoli (Trott et al. 1996) Ochiai et al. 1998 emend. Hördt et al. 2020
species	Brachyspira suanatina Mushtaq et al. 2016

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 Brachyspiraceae Paster 2012
genus Brachyspira Hovind-Hougen et al. 1983

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.

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Source File

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This information was last reviewed on January 20, 2017.

References

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Ochiai S, Adachi Y, Mori K. Unification of the genera Serpulina and Brachyspira, and proposals of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae comb. nov., Brachyspira innocens comb. nov. and Brachyspira pilosicoli comb. nov. Microbiol Immunol 1997; 41:445-452. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1348-0421.1997.tb01877.x [PubMed].