Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5439

Name

Lactobacillus vaginalis Embley et al. 1989

Taxonomic Rank

species

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
genus	Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zheng et al. 2020

Type Strain

representative organism

Lac 19^T (=CCUG 31452 =LMG 12891 =NCTC 12197 =JCM 9505 =ATCC 49540 =CIP 105932 =DSM 5837)

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this species within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Firmicutes (sic) Gibbons and Murray 2021
class Bacilli Ludwig et al. 2010
order Lactobacillales Ludwig et al. 2010
family Lactobacillaceae Winslow et al. 1917 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zheng et al. 2020
genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zheng et al. 2020
species Lactobacillus vaginalis Embley et al. 1989

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Non-Type Exemplars

Digital Object Identifier	Strain Equivalence
10.1601/ex.19557	EX336960VC12 (=BEI HM-406)
10.1601/ex.19552	BEI HM-402 (=EX336960VC05)
10.1601/ex.19556	BEI HM-405 (=EX336960VC11)

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the species Lactobacillus vaginalis Embley et al. 1989. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5439.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5439.xml


This information was last reviewed on October 14, 2019.

References

Embley TM, Faquir N, Bossart W, Collins MD. Lactobacillus vaginalis sp. nov. from the human vagina. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1989; 39:368-370. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-39-3-368.