Heyndrickxia coagulans

Heyndrickxia coagulans
Gram stain of Heyndrickxia coagulans
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Bacilli
Order: Bacillales
Family: Heyndrickxiaceae
Genus: Heyndrickxia
Species:
H. coagulans
Binomial name
Heyndrickxia coagulans
(Hammer 1915) Narsing Rao et al. 2023
Synonyms
  • Bacillus coagulans (Approved Lists 1980) emend. De Clerck et al. 2004
  • Lactobacillus sporogenes in Bergey's fifth ed.
  • Weizmannia coagulans (Hammer, 1915) Gupta et al., 2020

Heyndrickxia coagulans (formerly Bacillus coagulans) is a lactic acid–forming bacterial species. This species was transferred to Weizmannia in 2020, then to Heyndrickxia in 2023.