Bacteroidetes

See also: bacteroidetes

Translingual

Etymology

Plural of Bacteroides (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?), following Ancient Greek model

Proper noun

Bacteroidetes

Flavobacteria and sphingobacteria
1. A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Bacteria – now Bacteriodota.
2. A taxonomic class within the phylum Bacteriodota.

Usage notes

As a phylum, this is now superseded by the term Bacteriodota in the NCBI Taxonomy.

Synonyms

(phylum): Bacteriodota

Hypernyms

(phylum): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Negibacteria - subkingdom

Hyponyms

(phylum): Bacteroidia, Cytophagia, Flavobacteriia (formerly Flavobacteria); Sphingobacteriia - classes

References

Bacteroidetes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Bacteroidetes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Bacteroidetes at the Tree of Life Web Project
Bacteroidetes at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248

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