Name: Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. suionicum Gu et al. 2012

Category: Subspecies

Proposed as: subsp. nov.

Etymology: su.i.o’ni.cum. L. masc. pl. n. Suiones, according to Tacitus, the people who live in Scandinavia; L. neut. adj. suff. -icum, belonging to; N.L. neut. adj. suionicum, belonging to (or coming from) Sweden

Gender: neuter

Type strain: ATCC 9135; DSM 20241; LMG 8159; NBIMCC 8971; NCIMB 6992

See detailed strain information at

Conduct genome-based taxonomy at

16S rRNA gene: HM443957 Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Gu CT, Wang F, Li CY, Liu F, Huo GC. Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. suionicum subsp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1548-1551.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 62, part 7 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:2313-2314.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: synonym

Correct name: Leuconostoc suionicum (Gu et al. 2012) Jeon et al. 2017

Risk group: 1

• Synonyms:

  • Name	Kind
    Leuconostoc suionicum (Gu et al. 2012) Jeon et al. 2017	homotypic synonym, validly published under the ICNP, distinct rank

• Notes:
  • 📧 The e-mail address of the corresponding author given in the effective publication is not functional any more.
  • ❗ Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. suionicum is the correct name instead if this subspecies is regarded as a separate subspecies (i.e., if its nomenclatural type is not assigned to another subspecies whose name is validly published, legitimate and not rejected and has priority) within a separate species Leuconostoc mesenteroides within a separate genus Leuconostoc.
  • 😷 The risk group for Germany has been imported on 2023-10-29. The full classification is: risk group = 1.

Parent taxon: Leuconostoc mesenteroides (Tsenkovskii 1878) van Tieghem 1878 (Approved Lists 1980)

Assigned by: Gu CT, Wang F, Li CY, Liu F, Huo GC. Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. suionicum subsp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2012; 62:1548-1551.

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