Description of Prevotella rectalis sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from human rectum

Using a taxonogenomics method, we describe here a Gram-negative bacterium named Prevotella rectalis sp. nov., strain Marseille-P4334(T) (= CSUR P4334) isolated from the rectum. Strain Marseille-P4334(T) has a genome that measure 3.03 Mbp with 43.3 mol% G + C content.