Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.13003

Name

Bifidobacterium longum infantis Mattarelli et al. 2008

Taxonomic Rank

subspecies

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
species	Bifidobacterium longum Reuter 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

BF 38^T (=Reuter S12 =S12 =CIP 64.67 =KCTC 3249 =CGMCC 1.2202 =NCTC 11817 =AS 1.2202 =LMG 8811 =CGMCC 1.1853 =NCFB 2205 =JCM 1222 =CUETM 89-19 =AS 1.1853 =BCRC 15416 =ATCC 15697 =CECT 4551 =BCRC 14602 =LMG 10499 =DSM 20088 =KCTC 3270 =CCM 4990 =LMG 11046 =CCTM 3067 =CCUG 18368 =CCUG 30512B)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this subspecies within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Actinobacteria (sic) Goodfellow 2021 non Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997
class Actinomycetes Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
order Bifidobacteriales Stackebrandt et al. 1997 emend. Zhi et al. 2009
family Bifidobacteriaceae Stackebrandt et al. 1997 emend. Zhi et al. 2009
genus Bifidobacterium Orla-Jensen 1924 emend. Rogosa 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
species Bifidobacterium longum Reuter 1963 (Approved Lists 1980)
subspecies Bifidobacterium longum infantis Mattarelli et al. 2008

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.15327	CCUG 52486
10.1601/ex.15325	157F-NC
10.1601/ex.15326	Y1 (=ATCC 55813 =CCRC 910048)

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the subspecies Bifidobacterium longum infantis Mattarelli et al. 2008. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.13003.

Source File

10.1601/tx.13003.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 25, 2018.

References

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].