Bacteroidetes

See also: bacteroidetes

Translingual

Etymology

Plural of Bacteroides, following Ancient Greek model

Proper noun

Bacteroidetes

The flavobacteria and sphingobacteria
1. A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Bacteria.
2. A taxonomic class within the phylum Bacteroidetes.

Hypernyms

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

Hyponyms

(phylum): Bacteroidia, Cytophagia, Flavobacteriia (formerly Flavobacteria); Sphingobacteria - 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. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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