Name DOI
10.1601/nm.7698
Name
 Reuter 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)
Name Status
Validly Published
Current Authority
Reuter 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)
Preferred Name
Taxonomic Rank
species
Nomenclatural Type
(designated strain)
Refer to the type exemplar.
Taxonomy
Type Strain
representative organism
T (= = =)
Proper Form
Bifidobacterium longum Reuter 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)
Nomenclatural History
The species Bifidobacterium longum was originally described by Reuter 1963. This name appeared on the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names 1980. Sakata et al. established this name as an earlier heterotypic synonym of Matteuzzi et al. 1971 (Approved Lists 1980) in 2002. In 2008, Mattarelli et al. reduced this species to the rank of subspecies to form (Reuter 1963) Mattarelli et al. 2008 .
Citation
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Name Abstract for Bifidobacterium longum Reuter 1963 (Approved Lists 1980).. https://doi.org/10.1601/nm.7698.
Source File
This information was last reviewed on February 23, 2009.

References

  1. Reuter G. Vergleichenden Untersuchung über die Bifidus-Flora im Säuglings und Erwachsenenstuhl. Zentralbl Bakteriol Orig A 1963; 191:486-507. [PubMed].
  2. Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved Lists of Bacterial Names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-30-1-225.
  3. Sakata S, Kitahara M, Sakamoto M, Hayashi H, Fukuyama M, Benno Y. Unification of Bifidobacterium infantis and Bifidobacterium suis as Bifidobacterium longum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2002; 52:1945-1951. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.02221-0 [PubMed].
  4. Mattarelli P, Bonaparte C, Pot B, Biavati B. Proposal to reclassify the three biotypes of Bifidobacterium longum as three subspecies: Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum subsp. nov., Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis comb. nov. and Bifidobacterium longum subsp. suis comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2008; 58:767-772. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65319-0 [PubMed].