Bacteroidales

Bacteroidales
Bacteroides spp. anaerobically cultured in blood agar medium.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacteroidetes
Class: Bacteroidetes
Order: Bacteroidales
Families

Bacteroidaceae
Rikenellaceae
Porphyromonadaceae
Prevotellaceae

The order Bacteroidales is composed of four families of environmental bacteria[1].

References

  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.