Tribe Bacteroideae

Name: Bacteroideae Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Tribe

Proposed as: new tribe

Etymology: Bac.ter.o.i’de.ae. N.L. masc. n. Bacteroides, type genus of the tribe; L. fem. pl. n. suff. -eae, ending to denote a tribe; N.L. fem. pl. n. Bacteroideae, the Bacteroides tribe

Pronunciation (Latin), gender: bak-ter-o-I-de-a͡e, feminine

Type genus: Bacteroides Castellani and Chalmers 1919 (Approved Lists 1980)

Effective publication: Castellani A, Chalmers AJ. Manual of tropical medicine, 3rd ed. Williams, Wood and Co., New York, 1919.

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: correct name

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Record number: 6043

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