Bacteroidetes
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Translingual
Etymology
Plural of Bacteroides (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?), following Ancient Greek model
Proper noun
Bacteroidetes
- Flavobacteria and sphingobacteria
- A taxonomic phylum within the kingdom Bacteria – now Bacteriodota.
- A taxonomic class within the phylum Bacteriodota.
Usage notes
- As a phylum, this is now superseded by the term Bacteriodota in the NCBI Taxonomy.
Synonyms
- (phylum): Bacteriodota
Hypernyms
- (phylum): Prokaryota - superkingdom; Bacteria - kingdom; Negibacteria - subkingdom
Hyponyms
- (phylum): Bacteroidia, Cytophagia, Flavobacteriia (formerly Flavobacteria); Sphingobacteriia - classes
References
Bacteroidetes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Bacteroidetes on Wikispecies.Wikispecies - Bacteroidetes at the Tree of Life Web Project
- Bacteroidetes at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI
