Species Bacteroides asaccharolyticus

Name: Bacteroides asaccharolyticus (Holdeman and Moore 1970) Finegold and Barnes 1977 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: "Bacteroides melaninogenicus subsp. asaccharolyticus" Holdeman and Moore 1970

Etymology: a.sac.cha.ro.ly’ti.cus. Gr. pref. a-, not (inseparable prefix); Gr. neut. n. sakchar, sugar; N.L. masc. adj. lyticus, able to loose, able to dissolve; from Gr. masc. adj. lytikos, dissolving; N.L. masc. adj. asaccharolyticus, not digesting sugar

Gender: masculine

Type strain: ATCC 25260; CCUG 7834; DSM 20707; JCM 6326; LMG 13178

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16S rRNA gene: AB547653 Analyse FASTA

Effective publication: Finegold SM, Barnes EM. Proposal that the saccharolytic and asaccharolytic strains at present classified in the species as Bacteroides melaninogenicus and Bacteroides asaccharolyticus. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1977; 27:388-391.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Porphyromonas asaccharolytica (Holdeman and Moore 1970) Shah and Collins 1988

Risk group: 2

Synonyms:

Name	Kind
Porphyromonas asaccharolytica (Holdeman and Moore 1970) Shah and Collins 1988	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
"Bacteroides melaninogenicus subsp. asaccharolyticus" Holdeman and Moore 1970	homotypic synonym, not validly published, basonym of name in Approved Lists, distinct rank

Notes:
- Bacteroides asaccharolyticus is the correct name if this species is regarded as a separate species (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another species whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate genus Bacteroides.
- The full TRBA 466 classification is: risk group = 2, note = "ht".

Parent taxon: Bacteroides Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Finegold SM, Barnes EM. Proposal that the saccharolytic and asaccharolytic strains at present classified in the species as Bacteroides melaninogenicus and Bacteroides asaccharolyticus. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1977; 27:388-391.

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Record number: 773929

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