Bacteroidaceae


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Bacteroidaceae
"Bacteroides biacutis" anaerobically cultured in blood agar medium
Bacteroides biacutis anaerobically cultured in blood agar medium
Scientific classification e
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacteroidetes
Class: Bacteroidia
Order: Bacteroidales
Family: Bacteroidaceae
Genera
  • Acetofilamentum
  • Acetomicrobium
  • Acetothermus
  • Anaerorhabdus
  • Bacteroides
  • Capsularis[1]

The family Bacteroidaceae is composed of five genera of environmental bacteria.[2] The genus Capsularis used to exist prior to 1982, but its only species, B. zoogleoformans, was later deemed to be more closely related to the genus Bacteroides.[3] Bacteroides is common in the human gastrointestinal microbiotia.

References

  1. ^ Parker, Charles Thomas; Osier, Nicole Danielle; Garrity, George M (27 April 2009). "Taxonomic Abstract for the families". NamesforLife, LLC. doi:10.1601/tx.7930.
  2. ^ Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria) (D.R. Boone and R.W. Castenholz, eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York (2001). pp. 465-466.
  3. ^ http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/content/32/3/271.full.pdf+html.

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