Lentihominibacter
| Lentihominibacter | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Bacillati |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Clostridia |
| Order: | Eubacteriales |
| Genus: | Lentihominibacter Liu et al. 2022 |
| Type species | |
| Lentihominibacter hominis Liu et al. 2022 | |
| Species | |
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Lentihominibacter is a genus of slow-growing, rod-shaped, and non-motile bacteria isolated from human feces.[1] The type species is Lentihominibacter hominis. The genus name combines the Latin words lentus, meaning "slow", homo, meaning "human", and bacter, meaning "rod".[2]
The type strain of L. hominis, NSJ-24T (= CGMCC 1.32874T = KCTC 25076T), was isolated from human feces. Its cells are rod-shaped and non-motile, and growth on modified Gifu anaerobic medium occurs at 37 °C over 3–10 days.[1]
Taxonomy
L. hominis is the only validly published species. A second species, "Lentihominibacter faecis", was described in the same study, but its name has not been validly published.[2]
References
- 1 2 Liu, Chang; Du, Meng-Xuan; Abuduaini, Rexiding; Yu, Hai-Ying; et al. (21 May 2021). "Enlightening the taxonomy darkness of human gut microbiomes with a cultured biobank". Microbiome. 9 (1) 119. doi:10.1186/s40168-021-01064-3. PMC 8140505. PMID 34020714.
- 1 2 "Genus: Lentihominibacter". List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature. Leibniz Institute DSMZ. Retrieved 23 July 2026.