Lactobacillus delbrueckii, Beijerinck, 1901

Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O’Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, 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, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70, pp. 2782-2858 : 2793

Lactobacillus delbrueckii

Lactobacillus delbrueckii ( Bacillus delbrücki ) (del.brueck’i.i. N.L. gen. n. delbrueckii , of Delbrück, named for M. Delbrück, a German bacteriologist).

Type species of the genus Lactobacillus . Because of the high phenotypic and genotypic similarities between L. delbrueckii , L. leichmannii , L. lactis and L. bulgaricus , only L. delbrueckii is retained as a separate species. Both L. lactis and L. leichmannii are treated as L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis and L. bulgaricus as L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus [ 60]. All strains produce D(−)- lactic acid.