Table 1. Classification and general features of T. parva H^T according to the MIGS recommendations [29].

MIGS ID	Property	Term	Evidence code
		Domain Bacteria	TAS [30]
		Phylum Spirochaetes	TAS [31]
		Class Spirochaetes	TAS [32,33]
	Current classification	Order Spirochaetales	TAS [34,35]
		Family Leptospiraceae	TAS [1,35,36]
		Genus Turneriella	TAS [1]
	Species	Turneriella parva	TAS [1]
MIGS-7	Subspecific genetic lineage (strain)	Turneriella parva HT	TAS [1]
MIGS-12		Levett at al. 2005	TAS [1]
	Gram stain	negative	TAS [1]
	Cell shape	spiral-shaped	TAS [1]
	Motility	motile	TAS [1]
	Sporulation	non-sporulating
	Temperature range	mesophile	TAS [1]
	Optimum temperature	grows between 11 and 37 °C	TAS [1]
	Salinity	not reported
MIGS-22	Relationship to oxygen	aerobe	TAS [1]
	Carbon source	long-chain fatty acids and long-chain alcohols	TAS [4]
	Energy metabolism	chemoheterotrophic	TAS [4]
MIGS-6	Habitat	not reported
MIGS-6.2	pH	not reported
MIGS-15	Biotic relationship	free living	TAS [1]
MIGS-14	Known pathogenicity	not reported
MIGS-16	Specific host	not reported
MIGS-18	Health status of host	unknown
	Biosafety level	1	TAS [37]
MIGS-19	Trophic level	unknown
MIGS-23.1	Isolation	contaminated culture medium	TAS [1]
MIGS-4	Geographic location	Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada	TAS [1]
MIGS-5	Time of sample collection	1981	TAS [1]
MIGS-4.1	Latitude	50.45	TAS [1]
MIGS-4.2	Longitude	-104.61	TAS [11]
MIGS-4.3	Depth
MIGS-4.4	Altitude

Evidence codes - TAS: Traceable Author Statement (i.e., a direct report exists in the literature); NAS: Non-traceable Author Statement (i.e., not directly observed for the living, isolated sample, but based on a generally accepted property for the species, or anecdotal evidence). Evidence codes are from the Gene Ontology project [38].