Table 2.
Common species in human faeces. Seventy five bacterial species with >1% genome sequence coverage in >50% of 124 adult humans. After Qin et al. [6]
| Faecalibacterium prausnitzii | Bacteroides fragilis |
| Roseburia intestinalis | Eubacterium biforme |
| Dorea formicigenerans | Bacteroides eggerthii |
| Bacteroides vulgatus | Streptococcus thermophilus |
| Clostridium sp | Bacteroides capillosus |
| Bacteroides uniformis | Holdemania filiformis |
| Eubacterium hallii | Clostridium leptum |
| Bacteroides sp. | Prevotella copri |
| unknown sp | Clostridium sp. |
| Coprococcus comes | Bacteroides plebeius |
| Eubacterium rectale | Butyrivibrio crossotus |
| Ruminococcus sp. | Bacteroides coprocola |
| Dorea longicatena | Bacteroides finegoldii |
| Bacteriodes xylanisolvens | Clostridium bartlettii |
| Bacteroides sp. | Clostridium sp. |
| Bacteroides sp. | Escherichia coli |
| Ruminococcus torques | Parabacteroides johnsonii |
| Bacteroides sp. | Subdoligranulum variabile |
| Alistipes putredinis | Bacteroides intestinalis |
| Collinsella aerofaciens | Catenibacterium mitsuokai |
| Parabacteroides distasonis | Clostridium bolteae |
| Eubacterium siraeum | Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum |
| Bacteroides ovatus | Anaerotruncus colihominis |
| Bacteroides sp. | Bifidobacterium catenulatum |
| Bacteroides sp. | Ruminococcus gnavus |
| Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron | Bacteroides coprophilus |
| Bacteroides dorei | Bacteroides pectinophilus |
| Parabacteroides merdae | Gordonibacter pamelaeae gen. nov. sp. |
| Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis | Clostridium asparagiforme |
| Ruminococcus obeum | Clostridium nexile |
| Bifidobacterium adolescentis | Blautia hansenii |
| Bacteroides caccae | Clostridium scindens |
| Ruminococcus bromii | Enterococcus faecalis |
| Ruminococcus lactaris | Mollicutes bacterium |
| Eubacterium ventriosum | Bryantella formatexigens |
| Coprococcus eutactus | Clostridium methylpentosum |
| Akkermansia muciniphila | |
| Bacteroides stercoris | |
| Bacteroides cellulosilyticus |