Spirobacillus

Citation

Formal styling

Spirobacillus Angst et al., 2025

Effective publication

Angst et al., 2025

SeqCode status

Valid (SeqCode)

Register List

seqco.de/r:hyd0fmmd (validated)

Canonical URL

https://seqco.de/i:36404

Nomenclature

Rank

Genus

Inferred stem

Spirobacill-

Syllabication

Spi.ro.ba.ci'llus

Etymology

Gr. fem. n. speîra, coil or spiral, referring to this organism spiral shape; L. masc. n. bacillus, cylindrical or rodlike bacterium; N.L. masc. n. Spirobacillus, rodlike bacterium, having a spiral shape

Nomenclatural type

Spirobacillus cienkowskii^Ts

Nomenclatural status

Validly published under the SeqCode

Taxonomy

Description

Spirobacillus, described initially by Elya Metchnikoff (1889). Proteobacteria of the order Silvanigrellales. Morphologically distinct as tightly coiled bacteria (3.50 m in length by 1.07 m in width), production of a pink carotenoid. Infects the hemolymph of multiple species of Daphnia. Basis of assignment: 16S rRNA gene sequence GenBank accession number EU220836, oligonucleotide sequence S-*-Smet-1459-a-A-18 complementary to unique region of the 16S rRNA gene. Yet to be cultivated.

Classification

Bacteria » Bdellovibrionota » Oligoflexia » Silvanigrellales » Silvanigrellaceae » Spirobacillus

Parent

Silvanigrellaceae assigned in Hahn, Pitt, 2021

Children (1)

• Spirobacillus cienkowskii^Ts ncbi

Metadata

Outside links and data sources

• NCBI Taxonomy: 495819
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Wikispecies: Spirobacillus

Search sequences

• Seach in NCBI Nucleotide
• NCBI Genomes table

Local history

• This name was last modified 4 months ago
• Submission process status
• Quality checks before valid publication

Registered

Over 1 year ago by Angst, Pascal

Submitted

Over 1 year ago by Angst, Pascal

Curators

• Palmer, Marike (nomenclature)
• Rodriguez-R, Luis M (genomics)

Endorsed

Over 1 year ago by Rodriguez-R, Luis M

Validated

4 months ago by Palmer, Marike

Date of priority

2025-08-05 02:03 PM (UTC)