Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.7700

Name

Bifidobacterium merycicum Biavati and Mattarelli 1991 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Bifidobacterium Orla-Jensen 1924 emend. Rogosa 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Type Strain

representative organism

Ru915B^T (=ATCC 49391 =JCM 8219 =KCTC 3369 =DSM 6492)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species 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 merycicum Biavati and Mattarelli 1991 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018

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.

Citation

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Taxon Abstract for the species Bifidobacterium merycicum Biavati and Mattarelli 1991 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7700.

Source File

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This information was last reviewed on September 19, 2018.

References

Biavati B, Mattarelli P. Bifidobacterium ruminantium sp. nov. and Bifidobacterium merycicum sp. nov. from the rumens of cattle. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1991; 41:163-168. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-41-1-163 [PubMed].