%0 Journal Article %A Smythe, L. %A Adler, B. %A Hartskeerl, R. A. %A Galloway, R. L. %A Turenne, C. Y. %A Levett, P. N. %A the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of %T Classification of Leptospira genomospecies 1, 3, 4 and 5 as Leptospira alstonii sp. nov., Leptospira vanthielii sp. nov., Leptospira terpstrae sp. nov. and Leptospira yanagawae sp. nov., respectively %D 2013 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 63 %N Pt_5 %P 1859-1862 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.047324-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X The genus Leptospira currently comprises 16 named species. In addition, four unnamed hybridization groups were designated Leptospira genomospecies 1, 3, 4 and 5. These groups represent valid species-level taxa, but were not assigned names in the original description by Brenner et al. [Int J Syst Bacteriol 49, 839–858 (1999)]. To rectify this situation, it is proposed that Leptospira genomospecies 1, genomospecies 3, genomospecies 4 and genomospecies 5 should be classified as Leptospira alstonii sp. nov., Leptospira vanthielii sp. nov., Leptospira terpstrae sp. nov. and Leptospira yanagawae sp. nov., respectively, with strains L. alstonii 79601T ( = ATCC BAA-2439T), L. vanthielii WaZ HollandT ( = ATCC 700522T), L. terpstrae LT 11-33T ( = ATCC 700639T) and L. yanagawae Sao PauloT ( = ATCC 700523T) as the type strains. The type strains are also available from the culture collections of the WHO Collaborating Centres in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Brisbane, Australia. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.047324-0