Fibrobacterota

Fibrobacterota
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Clade: FCB group
Phylum: Fibrobacterota
Garrity & Holt 2021[1]
Classes
Synonyms
  • "Fibrobacteraeota" Oren et al. 2015
  • "Fibrobacteres" Garrity and Holt 2001
  • "Fibrobacterota" Whitman et al. 2018
  • "Raymondbacteria" Anantharaman et al. 2016

Fibrobacterota is a small bacterial phylum which includes many of the major rumen bacteria, allowing for the degradation of plant-based cellulose in ruminant animals. Members of this phylum were categorized in other phyla. The genus Fibrobacter (the only genus of Fibrobacterota) was removed from the genus Bacteroides in 1988.[2]

  1. ^ Oren A, Garrity GM (2021). "Valid publication of the names of forty-two phyla of prokaryotes". Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 71 (10): 5056. doi:10.1099/ijsem.0.005056. PMID 34694987. S2CID 239887308.
  2. ^ Montgomery L, Flesher B, Stahl D (1988). "Transfer of Bacteroides succinogenes (Hungate) to Fibrobacter gen. nov. as Fibrobacter succinogenes comb. nov. and description of Fibrobacter intestinalis sp. nov". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 38 (4): 430–435. doi:10.1099/00207713-38-4-430.