Domain Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Bacteroides faecichinchillae

Name: Bacteroides faecichinchillae Kitahara et al. 2012

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: fae.ci.chin.chil’lae. L. fem. n. faex (gen. faecis), the dregs, faeces; N.L. fem. n. Chinchilla, the zoological genus name of the chinchilla; N.L. gen. fem. n. faecichinchillae, of/from chinchilla excrement [probably better: faecischinchillae or chinchillifaecis]

Gender: masculine

Type strain: CCUG 60873; DSM 26883; JCM 17102; ST37

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: AB574480 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Kitahara M, Sakamoto M, Tsuchida S, Kawasumi K, Amao H, Benno Y, Ohkuma M. Bacteroides stercorirosoris sp. nov. and Bacteroides faecichinchillae sp. nov., isolated from chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera) faeces. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1145-1150.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 5 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1723-1724.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Risk group: 1

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

Assigned by: Kitahara M, Sakamoto M, Tsuchida S, Kawasumi K, Amao H, Benno Y, Ohkuma M. Bacteroides stercorirosoris sp. nov. and Bacteroides faecichinchillae sp. nov., isolated from chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera) faeces. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1145-1150.

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Record number: 789850
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