Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.7965

Name

Bacteroides merdae Johnson et al. 1986

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	Bacteroides Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Shah and Collins 1989

Type Strain

representative organism

VPI T4-1^T (=JCM 9497 =CCUG 38734 =ATCC 43184)

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 Bacteroidota corrig. Krieg et al. 2021
class Bacteroidia corrig. Krieg 2012 emend. García-López et al. 2019
order Bacteroidales Krieg 2012 emend. García-López et al. 2019
family Bacteroidaceae Pribram 1933 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. García-López et al. 2019
genus Bacteroides Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Shah and Collins 1989
species Bacteroides merdae Johnson et al. 1986

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

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Bacteroides merdae Johnson et al. 1986. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.7965.

Source File

10.1601/tx.7965.xml

References

Johnson JL, Moore WEC, Moore LVH. Bacteroides caccae sp. nov., Bacteroides merdae sp. nov., and Bacteroides stercoris sp. nov. isolated from human feces. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1986; 36:499-501. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-36-4-499.