Bacteroidaceae

Bacteroidaceae
	Bacteroides biacutis anaerobically cultured in blood agar medium
Scientific classification
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

Parker, Charles Thomas; Osier, Nicole Danielle; Garrity, George M (27 April 2009). "Taxonomic Abstract for the families". NamesforLife, LLC. doi:10.1601/tx.7930. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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.
http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/content/32/3/271.full.pdf+html%5B%5D.

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[Bacteroidaceae-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. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

[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.

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