# How to deal with the trailing number in taxa table?
**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-deal-with-the-trailing-number-in-taxa-table/14150
**Category:** Silva
**Tags:** taxonomy, feature-classifier, silva
**Created:** [March 22, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-deal-with-the-trailing-number-in-taxa-table/14150 "2020-03-22T01:54:06Z")
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### Author:  [@fanwayne](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/fanwayne)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-deal-with-the-trailing-number-in-taxa-table/14150/1 "2020-03-22T01:54:06Z")
Below are several observations that are filtered from my taxa table. I have one question regarding the training results, some features are labeled as Prevotella, but some of them end with numbers "Prevotella 6", "Prevotella 7". Do these represent the same genus? Should I remove the number and treat just as Prevotella or leave the original assignments unchanged?
> D\_0\_\_Bacteria;D\_1\_\_Bacteroidetes;D\_2\_\_Bacteroidia;D\_3\_\_Bacteroidales;D\_4\_\_Prevotellaceae;D\_5\_\_Prevotella;D\_6\_\_Prevotella amnii DSM 23384 = JCM 14753
> D\_0\_\_Bacteria;D\_1\_\_Bacteroidetes;D\_2\_\_Bacteroidia;D\_3\_\_Bacteroidales;D\_4\_\_Prevotellaceae;D\_5\_\_Prevotella 6;D\_6\_\_Prevotella colorans
> D\_0\_\_Bacteria;D\_1\_\_Bacteroidetes;D\_2\_\_Bacteroidia;D\_3\_\_Bacteroidales;D\_4\_\_Prevotellaceae;D\_5\_\_Prevotella;D\_6\_\_Prevotella amnii DSM 23384 = JCM 14753
> D\_0\_\_Bacteria;D\_1\_\_Bacteroidetes;D\_2\_\_Bacteroidia;D\_3\_\_Bacteroidales;D\_4\_\_Prevotellaceae;D\_5\_\_Prevotella 7
> D\_0\_\_Bacteria;D\_1\_\_Bacteroidetes;D\_2\_\_Bacteroidia;D\_3\_\_Bacteroidales;D\_4\_\_Prevotellaceae;D\_5\_\_Prevotella;D\_6\_\_Prevotella disiens JCM 6334 = ATCC 29426
> D\_0\_\_Bacteria;D\_1\_\_Actinobacteria;D\_2\_\_Actinobacteria;D\_3\_\_Corynebacteriales;D\_4\_\_Corynebacteriaceae;D\_5\_\_Corynebacterium 1
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### Author:  [@colinbrislawn](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/colinbrislawn)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2020, 2:14am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-deal-with-the-trailing-number-in-taxa-table/14150/2 "2020-03-22T02:14:53Z")
Welcome back to the forums!
I googled the text after D\_6\_\_ and they seems to be different strains!
> **[Taxonomy browser (Prevotella amnii DSM 23384 = JCM 14753)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=1122979)**
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> THE NCBI Taxonomy database allows browsing of the taxonomy tree, which contains a classification of organisms.
> **[Taxonomy browser (Prevotella disiens JCM 6334 = ATCC 29426)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?lvl=0&id=1235811)**
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> THE NCBI Taxonomy database allows browsing of the taxonomy tree, which contains a classification of organisms.
> [@fanwayne](#):
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> Does these represent the same genus?
`D_5__Prevotella` is the genus
`D_6__Prevotella amnii` is the species (well, the genus-species I guess).\*
And `D_6__Prevotella amnii DSM 23384 = JCM 14753` is genus-species-strain.
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> [@fanwayne](#):
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> Should I remove the number and treat just as Prevotella or leave the original assignments unchanged?
All good options. I think it's cool that you got strain level resolution! But if you wanted to make a bar graph at the genus level or the genus-species level, you could trim those off then merge the features together.
Colin
\*Are there any microbes known by just their species? 🤔
Why don't viruses go by their genus-species? 🧐
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### Author:  [@fanwayne](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/fanwayne)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2020, 5:39am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-deal-with-the-trailing-number-in-taxa-table/14150/3 "2020-03-22T05:39:29Z")
Many thanks for your answers! 😀