Cristispira

J.P. Euzéby: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature - Genus Cristispira

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Number of species cited in this file: 1
Number of subspecies cited in this file: 0

Classification (Warning: see also the file "Classification of prokaryotes: Introduction").

Cristispira Gross 1910, genus.
Type species: ¤ Cristispira pectinis Gross 1910 (Approved Lists 1980).
Etymology: L. fem. n. crista, a crest; L. fem. n. spira, a coil; N.L. fem. n. Cristispira, a crested coil.
References: SKERMAN (V.B.D.), McGOWAN (V.) and SNEATH (P.H.A.) (editors): Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1980, 30, 225-420 (Approved Lists of Bacterial Names in IJSEM Online - Approved Lists of Bacterial Names Amended edition). [GROSS (J.): Cristispira nov. gen. Ein Beitragzur Spirachätenfrage. Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel, 1910, 20, 41-93.]

Cristispira pectinis Gross 1910, species. (Type species of the genus).
Type strain (see also StrainInfo.net): no culture isolated.
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the type strain: not available.
Synonym: "Spirochaeta pectinis" (Gross 1910) Bosanquet 1911.
Etymology: L. n. pecten, a kind of shell-fish, a scallop, and also a genus of mollusks (Pecten); L. gen. n. pectinis, of a scallop, of Pecten.
References: SKERMAN (V.B.D.), McGOWAN (V.) and SNEATH (P.H.A.) (editors): Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1980, 30, 225-420 (Approved Lists of Bacterial Names in IJSEM Online - Approved Lists of Bacterial Names Amended edition). [GROSS (J.): Cristispira nov. gen. Ein Beitragzur Spirachätenfrage. Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel, 1910, 20, 41-93.]