
Name DOI	10.1601/nm.7692
Name	Bifidobacterium gallinarum Watabe et al. 1983 emend. Liu et al. 2020
Name Status	Validly Published
Current Authority	Watabe et al. 1983 emend. Liu et al. 2020
Preferred Name	Bifidobacterium pullorum gallinarum
Taxonomic Rank	species
Nomenclatural Type (designated strain)	Refer to the type exemplar.

Taxonomy	10.1601/tx.7692
Type Strain representative organism	Ch206-5^T (=LMG 11586 =DSM 20670 =BCRC 14679 =JCM 6291 =CCUG 34990 =ATCC 33777 =AS 1.2283)


Proper Form	Bifidobacterium gallinarum Watabe et al. 1983 emend. Liu et al. 2020
Nomenclatural History	The species Bifidobacterium gallinarum was originally described and validly published by Watabe et al. 1983. Liu et al. published an emended description of this species in 2020. In 2018, Nouioui et al. reduced this species to the rank of subspecies to form Bifidobacterium pullorum gallinarum (Watabe et al. 1983) Nouioui et al. 2018 . Liu et al. established this name as an earlier heterotypic synonym of Bifidobacterium saeculare Biavati et al. 1992 in 2020. In 2020, Liu et al. reduced this species to the rank of subspecies to form Bifidobacterium gallinarum gallinarum (Watabe et al. 1983) Liu et al. 2020 .

Citation	When referring specifically to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier. Name Abstract for Bifidobacterium gallinarum Watabe et al. 1983 emend. Liu et al. 2020.April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/nm.7692.
Source File	10.1601/nm.7692.xml


This information was last reviewed on November 30, 2020.

References

Liu DD, Wang H, Gu CT. Proposal of Bifidobacterium saeculare Biavati et al. 1992 as a later heterotypic synonym of Bifidobacterium gallinarum Watabe et al. 1983 and Bifidobacterium gallinarum subsp. saeculare subsp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:5964-5968. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004474 [PubMed].
Nouioui I, Carro L, García-López M, Meier-Kolthoff JP, Woyke T, Kyrpides NC, Pukall R, Klenk H-P, Goodfellow M, Göker M. Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria. Front. Microbio. 2018; 9:2007-2007. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2018.02007 [PubMed].
Watabe J, Benno Y, Mitsuoka T. Bifidobacterium gallinarum sp. nov.: a new species isolated from the ceca of chickens. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1983; 33:127-132. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-33-2-127.