Bacteroidaceae

Bacteroidaceae
	Bacteroides spp. anaerobically cultured in blood agar medium.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Bacteroidetes
Class:	Bacteroidia
Order:	Bacteroidales
Family:	Bacteroidaceae
Genera
	Bacteroides; Acetofilamentum; Acetomicrobium; Acetothermus; Anaerorhabdus

The family Bacteroidaceae is composed of five genera of environmental bacteria.^[1] The genus Capsularis used to exist prior to 1982, but its only species, B. zoogleoformans, was later deemed to be more closely related to the genus Bacteroides.^[2]

References

^ Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria) (D.R. Boone and R.W. Castenholz, eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York (2001). pp. 465-466.
^ http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/content/32/3/271.full.pdf+html.

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[1] Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (The Archaea and the deeply branching and phototrophic Bacteria) (D.R. Boone and R.W. Castenholz, eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York (2001). pp. 465-466.

[2] ttp://ijs.sgmjournals.org/content/32/3/271.full.pdf+html.

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