Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5567

Name

Leuconostocaceae Schleifer 2010

Taxonomic Rank

family

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
order	Lactobacillales Ludwig et al. 2010

Members

genus	Leuconostoc van Tieghem 1878 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Bello et al. 2022
genus	Convivina Praet et al. 2015
genus	Fructobacillus Endo and Okada 2008 emend. Bello et al. 2022
genus	Oenococcus Dicks et al. 1995 emend. Bello et al. 2022
genus	Periweissella Bello et al. 2022
genus	Weissella Collins et al. 1994 emend. Bello et al. 2022

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this family 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 Leuconostocaceae Schleifer 2010

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.

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the family Leuconostocaceae Schleifer 2010. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5567.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5567.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 1, 2022.

References

Bello S, Rudra B, Gupta RS. Phylogenomic and comparative genomic analyses of Leuconostocaceae species: identification of molecular signatures specific for the genera Leuconostoc, Fructobacillus and Oenococcus and proposal for a novel genus Periweissella gen. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2022; 72:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.005284 [PubMed].
Praet J, Meeus I, Cnockaert M, Houf K, Smagghe G, Vandamme P. Novel lactic acid bacteria isolated from the bumble bee gut: Convivina intestini gen. nov., sp. nov., Lactobacillus bombicola sp. nov., and Weissella bombi sp. nov. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 2015; 107:1137-1349. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10482-015-0429-z [PubMed].
Schleifer K-H. Family V. Leuconostocaceae fam. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity G, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, Schleifer KH, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second Edition, Volume 3, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2009, p. 624.