Bacteroidia class. nov.

Bac.te.ro.i.di'a. N.L. masc. n. Bacteroides type genus of the type order Bacteroidales; suff. -ia ending proposed by Gibbons and Murray and by Stackebrandt et al. to denote a class; N.L. neut. pl. n. Bacteroidia the Bacteroidales class. Bacteroidetes / Bacteroidia Keywords: Bacteroidia class. nov.; Bacteroidales; Bacteroidetes phyl. nov.