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Domain Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species Rarely used categories

Species Levilactobacillus yonginensis

Name: Levilactobacillus yonginensis (Yi et al. 2013) Zheng et al. 2020

Category: Species

Proposed as: comb. nov.

Basonym: Lactobacillus yonginensis Yi et al. 2013

Etymology: yong.in.en’sis. N.L. masc. adj. yonginensis, of Yongin, the city in Korea where the organism was isolated

Gender: masculine

Type strain: DSM 29216; JCM 18023; KACC 16236; THK-V8

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: JN128640 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Zheng J, Wittouck S, Salvetti E, Franz CMAP, Harris HMB, Mattarelli P, O'Toole PW, Pot B, Vandamme P, Walter J, et al. A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2782-2858.

IJSEM list: Oren A, Garrity GM. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 70, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:4050-4060.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

Parent taxon: Levilactobacillus Zheng et al. 2020

Assigned by: Zheng J, Wittouck S, Salvetti E, Franz CMAP, Harris HMB, Mattarelli P, O'Toole PW, Pot B, Vandamme P, Walter J, et al. A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:2782-2858.

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Record number: 10841
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