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. 2021 Sep 13;71(9):005000. doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.005000

Table 1.

Species in the Approved List of Bacterial Names for which no cultured type strain is available

This list was compiled by downloading the genera, species and subspecies list from the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (https://lpsn.dsmz.de/downloads) and then sorting and selecting entries by nomenclatural type.

Species

LPSN description of type strain

Achromatium oxaliferum

No culture isolated

Aegyptianella pullorum

No culture isolated

Anaplasma marginale

No culture isolated

Anaplasma ovis

No culture isolated

Ancalochloris perfilievii

No pure culture

Bactoderma alba

No culture available

Blastobacter henricii

No culture isolated

Blattabacterium cuenoti

No culture isolated

Borrelia anserina

No culture available

Borrelia brasiliensis

No culture available

Borrelia caucasica

No culture available

Borrelia crocidurae

No culture available

Borrelia dugesii

No culture available

Borrelia duttonii

No culture available

Borrelia graingeri

No culture available

Borrelia harveyi

No culture available

Borrelia hermsii

No culture available

Borrelia hispanica

No culture available

Borrelia latyschewii

No culture available

Borrelia mazzottii

No culture available

Borrelia parkeri

No culture available

Borrelia persica

No culture available

Borrelia recurrentis

No culture available

Borrelia theileri

No culture available

Borrelia tillae

No culture available

Borrelia turicatae

No culture available

Borrelia venezuelensis

No culture available

Chloronema giganteum

No pure culture

Crenothrix polyspora

No culture isolated

Cristispira pectinis

No culture isolated

Eperythrozoon coccoides

No culture isolated

Eperythrozoon parvum

No culture isolated

Gallionella ferruginea

No culture isolated

Leptothrix ochracea

No culture available

Macromonas mobilis

No culture available

Mycobacterium leprae

Has not been cultivated

Mycobacterium lepraemurium

None specified due to difficulties in cultivation

Neorickettsia helminthoeca

No culture isolated

Nitrosococcus nitrosus

No culture isolated

Nitrosospira briensis

No culture available

Oscillospira guilliermondii

No culture isolated

Pasteuria ramosa

Description from 1888 serves as type

Planctomyces bekefii

No culture isolated

Rickettsiella popilliae

No culture isolated

Rickettsiella stethorae

No culture isolated

Spirochaeta plicatilis

No culture available

Symbiotes lectularius

No culture isolated

Thiopedia rosea

No pure culture

Thioploca schmidlei

No culture isolated

Thiospira winogradskyi

No culture available

Thiovulum majus

No culture isolated

Toxothrix trichogenes

No culture isolated

Treponema pallidum

No culture available; none designated

Treponema paraluiscuniculi

No culture available

Treponema pertenue

No culture available; none designated

Wolbachia melophagi

No culture isolated

Wolbachia pipientis

No culture isolated