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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Levilactobacillus lettrarii

Name: Levilactobacillus lettrarii Pham and Gänzle 2025

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: let.tra’ri.i. N.L. gen. masc. n. lettrarii, named after Silvio Lettrari, who maintains the sourdough from which the bacteria were isolated from

Pronunciation, gender: let-TRA-ri-i, masculine

Type strain: DSM 118651; FUA 3695; LMG 33759

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: PQ374219 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Pham VD, Ganzle MG. Fructilactobacillus frigidiflavus sp. nov., a pigmented species, and Levilactobacillus lettrarii sp. nov., a propionate-producing species isolated from sourdough. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6726.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Göker M. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 75, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6765.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Levilactobacillus Zheng et al. 2020

Assigned by: Pham VD, Ganzle MG. Fructilactobacillus frigidiflavus sp. nov., a pigmented species, and Levilactobacillus lettrarii sp. nov., a propionate-producing species isolated from sourdough. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2025; 75:6726.

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Record number: 62841
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