Name: Parabacteroides Sakamoto and Benno 2006
Etymology: Gr. prep. para, beside; N.L. masc. n. Bacteroides, a genus name; N.L. masc. n. Parabacteroides, resembling the genus Bacteroides
Gender: masculine (stem: Parabacteroid-)
Type species: Parabacteroides distasonis (Eggerth and Gagnon 1933) Sakamoto and Benno 2006
Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS
Valid publication:
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.
IJSEM list:
Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 56, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2006; 56:2251-2252.
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP
Taxonomic status: correct name
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 11
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 11
Total number of child taxa: 21
Parent taxon: Tannerellaceae Ormerod et al. 2022
Assigned by:
Ormerod KL, Wood DL, Lachner N, Gellatly SL, Daly JN, Parsons JD, Dal'Molin CG, Palfreyman RW, Nielsen LK, Cooper MA, et al. Genomic characterization of the uncultured Bacteroidales family S24-7 inhabiting the guts of homeothermic animals. Microbiome 2016; 4:36.
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Record number: 516255