Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5576

Name

Leuconostoc citreum Farrow et al. 1989

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	Leuconostoc van Tieghem 1878 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Bello et al. 2022

Type Strain

representative organism

B 2399^T (=NCDO 1837 =KCTC 3526 =ATCC 49370)

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 Lactobacillaceae Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zheng et al. 2020
genus Leuconostoc van Tieghem 1878 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Bello et al. 2022
species Leuconostoc citreum Farrow et al. 1989

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.15918	KM20

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the species Leuconostoc citreum Farrow et al. 1989. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5576.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5576.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 24, 2019.

References

Farrow JAE, Facklam RR, Collins MD. Nucleic acid homologies of some vancomycin-resistant leuconostocs and description of Leuconostoc citreum sp. nov. and Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides sp. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1989; 39:279-283. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-39-3-279.