Genus Bifidobacterium
Orla-Jensen 1924
Gram-positive rods of various shapes, with protuberances, branching, slightly bifurcated or spatuled extremities, non-spore-forming and non-motile;
non-acid-fast, saccharoclastic, acetic and lactic acid are formed and glucose is degraded exclusively and characteristically by the fructose 6-
phosphate phosphoketolase; anaerobic; no nitrate reduction, indole not produced, catalase negative; some factors, called “bifidus factors” stimulate
growth (N-acetyl-D-glucosamine, lactoferrin, oligo- and polysaccharides);
(c) Costin Stoica
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* marked species are not included
in ABIS biochemical database
** species not validly published
Bifidobacterium actinocoloniiforme
Bifidobacterium adolescentis
Bifidobacterium aemilianum
Bifidobacterium aerophilum
Bifidobacterium aesculapii
Bifidobacterium amazonense
Bifidobacterium angulatum
Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. animalis
Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis
Bifidobacterium anseris
Bifidobacterium apri
Bifidobacterium apousia
Bifidobacterium aquikefiri
Bifidobacterium asteroides
Bifidobacterium avesanii
Bifidobacterium biavatii
Bifidobacterium bifidum
Bifidobacterium bohemicum
Bifidobacterium bombi
Bifidobacterium boum
Bifidobacterium breve
Bifidobacterium callimiconis
Bifidobacterium callitrichidarum
Bifidobacterium callitrichos
Bifidobacterium canis
Bifidobacterium castoris
Bifidobacterium catenulatum subsp. catenulatum
Bifidobacterium catenulatum subsp. kashiwanohense
Bifidobacterium catulorum
Bifidobacterium cebidarum *
Bifidobacterium choerinum
Bifidobacterium choladohabitans
Bifidobacterium choloepi
Bifidobacterium colobi
Bifidobacterium commune
Bifidobacterium coryneforme
Bifidobacterium criceti
Bifidobacterium crudilactis **
Bifidobacterium cuniculi
Bifidobacterium dentium
Bifidobacterium dolichotidis
Bifidobacterium erythrocebi
Bifidobacterium eulemuris
Bifidobacterium faecale
Bifidobacterium felsineum
Bifidobacterium gallicum
Bifidobacterium gallinarum subsp. gallinarum
Bifidobacterium gallinarum subsp. saeculare
Bifidobacterium globosum
Bifidobacterium goeldii
Bifidobacterium hapali
Bifidobacterium imperatoris
Bifidobacterium indicum
Bifidobacterium italicum
Bifidobacterium jacchi
Bifidobacterium lemurum
Bifidobacterium leontopitheci *
Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis
Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum
Bifidobacterium longum subsp. suillum
Bifidobacterium longum subsp. suis
Bifidobacterium magnum
Bifidobacterium margollesii
Bifidobacterium miconis
Bifidobacterium miconisargentati
Bifidobacterium mellis
Bifidobacterium merycicum
Bifidobacterium minimum
Bifidobacterium mizhiense
Bifidobacterium mongoliense
Bifidobacterium moraviense
Bifidobacterium moukalabense
Bifidobacterium myosotis
Bifidobacterium oedipodis
Bifidobacterium olomucense
Bifidobacterium panos
Bifidobacterium parmae
Bifidobacterium phasiani
Bifidobacterium pluvialisilvae
Bifidobacterium polysaccharolyticum
Bifidobacterium pongonis
Bifidobacterium porcinum
Bifidobacterium primatium
Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum
Bifidobacterium pseudolongum
Bifidobacterium psychraerophilum
Bifidobacterium pullorum
Bifidobacterium ramosum
Bifidobacterium reuteri
Bifidobacterium rousetti
Bifidobacterium ruminantium
Bifidobacterium saguini
Bifidobacterium saguinibicoloris
Bifidobacterium samirii
Bifidobacterium santillanense
Bifidobacterium scaligerum
Bifidobacterium scardovii
Bifidobacterium simiarum
Bifidobacterium simiiventris
Bifidobacterium stellenboschense
Bifidobacterium stercoris (see S. adolescentis)
Bifidobacterium subtile
Bifidobacterium thermacidophilum
Bifidobacterium thermophilum
Bifidobacterium tibiigranuli
Bifidobacterium tissieri
Bifidobacterium tsurumiense
Bifidobacterium vansinderenii
Bifidobacterium vespertilionis
Bifidobacterium xylocopae
NOTES

According to Nouioui et al. (2018),

Bifidobacterium coryneforme
is a later
heterotypic synonym of Bifidobacterium
indicum Scardovi and Trovatelli 1969.

Bifidobacterium inopinatum and B.
denticolens
were transfered to
Scardovia inopinata and Parascardovia
denticolens
, respectively
(Jian W, Dong X, 2002).

According to Sakata et al. 2002,
Bifidobacterium infantis Reuter 1963 is
a later heterotypic synonym of
Bifidobacterium longum Reuter 1963

Bifidobacterium stercoris Kim et al.
2010, is a later heterotypic synonym of
Bifidobacterium adolescentis Reuter
1963 (Killer et al. 2013)