Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.10816

Name

Lactococcus lactis (Lister 1873) Schleifer et al. 1986

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Lactococcus Schleifer et al. 1986

Members

subspecies	Lactococcus lactis cremoris (Orla-Jensen 1919) Schleifer et al. 1986
subspecies	Lactococcus lactis hordniae (ex Lattore-Guzmann et al. 1977) Schleifer et al. 1986
subspecies	Lactococcus lactis lactis (Lister 1873) Schleifer et al. 1986
subspecies	Lactococcus lactis tructae Pérez et al. 2011

Type Strain

representative organism

JCM 5805^T (=NBRC 100933 =ATCC 9936 =VKM B-1662 =VTT E-90395 =NCTC 6681 =NBIMCC 4000 =BCRC 12312 =HAMBI 1591 =CCUG 7980 =CECT 185 =LMG 6890 =CIP 70.56 =NCDO 604 =CCM 1877 =CCUG 32211 =NCIMB 6681 =ATCC 19435 =BCC 49730 =NCAIM B.02070 =KCTC 3769 =DSM 20481 =NRIC 1149)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Bacilli Ludwig et al. 2010
order Lactobacillales Ludwig et al. 2010
family Streptococcaceae Deibel and Seeley 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)
genus Lactococcus Schleifer et al. 1986
species Lactococcus lactis (Lister 1873) Schleifer et al. 1986

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.21437	S3

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Lactococcus lactis (Lister 1873) Schleifer et al. 1986. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.10816.

Source File

10.1601/tx.10816.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 11, 2017.

References

Schleifer KH, Kraus J, Dvorak C, Kilpper-Bälz R, Collins MD, Fischer W. Transfer of Streptococcus lactis and related streptococci to the genus Lactococcus gen. nov. Syst Appl Microbiol 1985; 6:183-195. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0723-2020(85)80052-7.
Pérez T, Balcázar JL, Peix A, Valverde A, Velázquez E, de Blas I, Ruiz-Zarzuela I. Lactococcus lactis subsp. tructae subsp. nov. isolated from the intestinal mucus of brown trout (Salmo trutta) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2011; 61:1894-1898. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.023945-0 [PubMed].