Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5695

Name

Lactococcus Schleifer et al. 1986

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Streptococcaceae Deibel and Seeley 1974 (Approved Lists 1980)

Members

species	Lactococcus lactis (Lister 1873) Schleifer et al. 1986
species	Lactococcus allomyrinae Heo et al. 2019
species	Lactococcus carnosus Hilgarth et al. 2020
species	Lactococcus chungangensis Cho et al. 2008
species	Lactococcus cremoris (Orla-Jensen 1919) Li et al. 2021
species	Lactococcus formosensis Chen et al. 2014 emend. Zhang et al. 2021
species	Lactococcus fujiensis Cai et al. 2011
species	Lactococcus garvieae (Collins et al. 1984) Schleifer et al. 1986
species	Lactococcus hircilactis Meucci et al. 2015
species	Lactococcus hodotermopsidis Noda et al. 2020
species	Lactococcus insecticola Noda et al. 2020
species	Lactococcus kimchii Pheng et al. 2020
species	Lactococcus laudensis Meucci et al. 2015
species	Lactococcus nasutitermitis Yang et al. 2016
species	Lactococcus paracarnosus Hilgarth et al. 2020
species	Lactococcus petauri Goodman et al. 2017
species	Lactococcus piscium Williams et al. 1990
species	Lactococcus plantarum (Collins et al. 1984) Schleifer et al. 1986
species	Lactococcus raffinolactis (Orla-Jensen and Hansen 1932) Schleifer et al. 1988
species	Lactococcus reticulitermitis Yuki et al. 2018
species	Lactococcus taiwanensis Chen et al. 2013
species	Lactococcus termiticola Noda et al. 2018

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus 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

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 genus Lactococcus Schleifer et al. 1986. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5695.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5695.xml


This information was last reviewed on April 8, 2021.

References

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