Name: Leuconostoc van Tieghem 1878 (Approved Lists 1980)

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Gr. adj. leukos, clear, light; N.L. neut. n. Nostoc, algal generic name; N.L. neut. n. Leuconostoc, colorless nostoc

Gender: neuter

Type species: Leuconostoc mesenteroides (Tsenkovskii 1878) van Tieghem 1878 (Approved Lists 1980)

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Original publication: Van Tieghem P. Sur la gomme de sucrerie (Leuconostoc mesenteroides). Annales des Sciences Naturelles Botanique 1878; 7:180-203.

IJSEM list: Skerman VBD, McGowan V, Sneath PHA. Approved lists of bacterial names. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1980; 30:225-420.

Nomenclatural status: validly published

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Nomenclatural type of the family Leuconostocaceae Schleifer 2010. Publication: Schleifer K-H. Family V. Leuconostocaceae fam. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 624.
  • Winslow et al. (1920) assigned this genus to the tribe Streptococceae Trevisan 1889 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Winslow CE, Broadhurst J, Buchanan RE, Krumwiede C, Rogers LA, Smith GH. The Families and Genera of the Bacteria: Final Report of the Committee of the Society of American Bacteriologists on Characterization and Classification of Bacterial Types. J Bacteriol 1920; 5:191-229.
  • This taxon name is occasionally misprinted in some sources as: "Leuconosotc".

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 15
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 26
Total number of child taxa: 27

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Leuconostoc amelibiosum Schillinger et al. 1989	validly published	synonym
    Leuconostoc argentinum Dicks et al. 1993	validly published	synonym
    Leuconostoc carnosum Shaw and Harding 1989	validly published	correct name
    Leuconostoc citreum Farrow et al. 1989	validly published	correct name
    Leuconostoc cremoris (Knudsen and Sørensen 1929) Garvie 1960 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Leuconostoc dextranicum (Beijerinck 1912) Hucker and Pederson 1930 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Leuconostoc durionis Leisner et al. 2005	validly published	synonym
    Leuconostoc fallax Martinez-Murcia and Collins 1992	validly published	correct name
    Leuconostoc ficulneum Antunes et al. 2002	validly published	synonym
    Leuconostoc fructosum (Kodama 1956) Antunes et al. 2002	validly published	synonym
    Leuconostoc gasicomitatum Björkroth et al. 2001	validly published	synonym
    Leuconostoc gelidum Shaw and Harding 1989	validly published	correct name
    Leuconostoc holzapfelii De Bruyne et al. 2007	validly published	correct name
    Leuconostoc inhae Kim et al. 2003	validly published	correct name
    Leuconostoc kimchii Kim et al. 2000	validly published	correct name
    Leuconostoc lactis Garvie 1960 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Leuconostoc litchii Chen et al. 2020	validly published	correct name
    Leuconostoc mesenteroides (Tsenkovskii 1878) van Tieghem 1878 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	correct name
    Leuconostoc miyukkimchii Lee et al. 2012	validly published	correct name
    Leuconostoc oeni corrig. Garvie 1967 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Leuconostoc oenos (sic) Garvie 1967 (Approved Lists 1980)	misspelling	orthographic variant
    Leuconostoc palmae Ehrmann et al. 2009	validly published	correct name
    Leuconostoc paramesenteroides Garvie 1967 (Approved Lists 1980)	validly published	synonym
    Leuconostoc pseudoficulneum Chambel et al. 2006	validly published	synonym
    Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides Farrow et al. 1989	validly published	correct name
    Leuconostoc rapi Lyhs et al. 2015	validly published	correct name
    Leuconostoc suionicum (Gu et al. 2012) Jeon et al. 2017	validly published	correct name

Parent taxon: Leuconostocaceae Schleifer 2010

Assigned by: Schleifer K-H. Family V. Leuconostocaceae fam. nov. In: De Vos P, Garrity GM, Jones D, Krieg NR, Ludwig W, Rainey FA, K.-H. S, Whitman WB (eds), Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, 2nd edn, vol. 3 (The Firmicutes), Springer, New York, 2009, p. 624.

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