
Name DOI	10.1601/nm.7965
Name	Bacteroides merdae Johnson et al. 1986
Name Status	Validly Published
Current Authority	Johnson et al. 1986
Preferred Name	Parabacteroides merdae
Taxonomic Rank	species
Nomenclatural Type (designated strain)	Refer to the type exemplar.

Taxonomy	10.1601/tx.7965
Type Strain representative organism	VPI T4-1^T (=JCM 9497 =CCUG 38734 =ATCC 43184)


Proper Form	Bacteroides merdae Johnson et al. 1986
Nomenclatural History	The species Bacteroides merdae was originally described and validly published by Johnson et al. 1986. In 2006, Sakamoto and Benno established Bacteroides merdae as the basonym of Parabacteroides merdae (Johnson et al. 1986) Sakamoto and Benno 2006 emend. Hahnke et al. 2016 .

Citation	When referring specifically to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier. Name Abstract for Bacteroides merdae Johnson et al. 1986.April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/nm.7965.
Source File	10.1601/nm.7965.xml


This information was last reviewed on February 24, 2009.

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.
Sakamoto M, Benno Y. Reclassification of Bacteroides distasonis, Bacteroides goldsteinii and Bacteroides merdae as Parabacteroides distasonis gen. nov., comb. nov., Parabacteroides goldsteinii comb. nov. and Parabacteroides merdae comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:1599-1605. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64192-0 [PubMed].