%0 Journal Article %A Haakensen, Monique %A Dobson, C. Melissa %A Hill, Janet E. %A Ziola, Barry %T Reclassification of Pediococcus dextrinicus (Coster and White 1964) Back 1978 (Approved Lists 1980) as Lactobacillus dextrinicus comb. nov., and emended description of the genus Lactobacillus %D 2009 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 59 %N 3 %P 615-621 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65779-0 %K MLSA, multilocus sequence analysis %I Microbiology Society, %X The taxonomic status of Pediococcus dextrinicus is described and transfer of the species to the genus Lactobacillus, with the name Lactobacillus dextrinicus comb. nov., is proposed. This reclassification is supported by multilocus sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene and Cpn60, PheS, RecA and RpoA proteins. The mode of cell division and existing phenotypic information also show that P. dextrinicus does not belong to the genus Pediococcus, but rather to the genus Lactobacillus. As such, we propose that Pediococcus dextrinicus is reclassified as Lactobacillus dextrinicus comb. nov. (type strain ATCC 33087T=DSM 20335T=JCM 5887T=LMG 11485T=NCDO 1561T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65779-0