Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.5516

Name

Lactosphaera Janssen et al. 1995

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

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

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Carnobacteriaceae Ludwig et al. 2010

Members

species	Lactosphaera pasteurii (Schink 1985) Janssen et al. 1995

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus 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 Carnobacteriaceae Ludwig et al. 2010
genus Lactosphaera Janssen et al. 1995

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.

Citation

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

Taxon Abstract for the genus Lactosphaera Janssen et al. 1995. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.5516.

Source File

10.1601/tx.5516.xml


This information was last reviewed on May 8, 2009.

References

Janssen PH, Evers S, Rainey FA, Weiss N, Ludwig W, Harfoot CG, Schink B. Lactosphaera gen. nov., a new genus of lactic acid bacteria, and transfer of Ruminococcus pasteurii Schink 1984 to Lactosphaera pasteurii comb. nov. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1995; 45:565-571. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-45-3-565 [PubMed].