Fructobacillus

Fructobacillus
Fructobacillus fructosus, formerly Leuconostoc fructosum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Bacillati
Phylum:	Bacillota
Class:	Bacilli
Order:	Lactobacillales
Family:	Lactobacillaceae
Genus:	Fructobacillus Endo and Okada 2008
Type species
Fructobacillus fructosus (Kodama 1956) Endo and Okada 2008
Species
Fructobacillus durionis (Leisner et al. 2005) Endo and Okada 2008 Fructobacillus ficulneus (Antunes et al. 2002) Endo and Okada 2008 Fructobacillus fructosus (Kodama 1956) Endo and Okada 2008 Fructobacillus pseudoficulneus (Chambel et al. 2006) Endo and Okada 2008 Fructobacillus tropaeoli Endo et al. 2011

Fructobacillus is a genus of lactic acid bacteria belonging to the family Lactobacillaceae. It is a fructophilic lactic acid bacteria, indicating that it thrives better in fructose than in glucose and is characterized by its inability to produce ethanol.

Phylogeny

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature and the phylogeny is based on whole-genome sequences.