
Name DOI	10.1601/nm.7960
Name	Bacteroides loescheii Holdeman and Johnson 1982
Name Status	Validly Published
Current Authority	Holdeman and Johnson 1982
Preferred Name	Prevotella loescheii
Taxonomic Rank	species
Nomenclatural Type (designated strain)	Refer to the type exemplar.

Taxonomy	10.1601/tx.7960
Type Strain representative organism	Loesche 8B^T (=8B =VPI 9085 =ATCC 15930 =NCTC 11321)


Proper Form	Bacteroides loescheii Holdeman and Johnson 1982
Nomenclatural History	The species Bacteroides loescheii was originally described and validly published by Holdeman and Johnson 1982. In 1990, Shah and Collins established Bacteroides loescheii as the basonym of Prevotella loescheii (Holdeman and Johnson 1982) Shah and Collins 1990 emend. Hahnke et al. 2016 .

Citation	When referring specifically to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier. Name Abstract for Bacteroides loescheii Holdeman and Johnson 1982.April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/nm.7960.
Source File	10.1601/nm.7960.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 24, 2009.

References

Shah HN, Collins DM. Prevotella, a new genus to include Bacteroides melaninogenicus and related species formerly classified in the genus Bacteroides. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1990; 40:205-208. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-40-2-205 [PubMed].
Holdeman LV, Johnson JL. Description of Bacteroides loescheii sp. nov. and emendation of the descriptions of Bacteroides melaninogenicus (Oliver and Wherry) Roy and Kelly 1939 and Bacteroides denticola Shah and Collins 1981. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1982; 32:399-409. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-32-4-399.