Name: Levilactobacillus suantsaiihabitans Mattarelli et al. 2021

Category: Species

Proposed as: sp. nov.

Etymology: suan.tsai.i.ha’bi.tans. L. pres. part. habitans, inhabiting; N.L. masc. part. adj. suantsaiihabitans, inhabiting suan-tsai, pertaining to a traditional fermented mustard green product of Taiwan, from which the type strain was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: BCRC 81129; NBRC 113532; R19

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: MH810313 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Mattarelli P, Felis G, Franz CMAP, Ganzle MG. Proposal to reclassify four Lactobacillus species as Apilactobacillus bombintestini, Companilactobacillus suantsaicola, Lactiplantibacillus garii and Levilactobacillus suantsaiihabitans. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 71:0.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 71, part 3 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:4812.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP, illegitimate name

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Levilactobacillus suantsaiihabitans Zheng et al. 2020

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Lactobacillus suantsaiihabitans (Zheng et al. 2020) Lin et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP
    Levilactobacillus suantsaiihabitans Zheng et al. 2020	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP

• Notes:
  • 🧬 The phylogenomic assignment score of this taxon is 0.18572 (N = 9).
  • 🎓 Name mentioned 2 times in PubMed until 2024-03-27.
  • 🧍 Later isonym of Levilactobacillus suantsaiihabitans Zheng et al. 2020 (see there for further comments). Publication: Oren A, Arahal DR, Goker M, Moore ERB, Rossello-Mora R, Sutcliffe IC. International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes. Prokaryotic Code (2022 Revision). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2023; 73:5585.

Parent taxon: Levilactobacillus Zheng et al. 2020

Assigned by: Mattarelli P, Felis G, Franz CMAP, Ganzle MG. Proposal to reclassify four Lactobacillus species as Apilactobacillus bombintestini, Companilactobacillus suantsaicola, Lactiplantibacillus garii and Levilactobacillus suantsaiihabitans. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 71:0.

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Record number: 18767