Lactobacillus paraplantarum sp. nov., a New Species Related to Lactobacillus plantarum CURK, MARIE-CHRISTINE and HUBERT, JEAN-CLAUDE and BRINGEL, FRANÇOISE,, 46, 595-598 (1996), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-46-2-595, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= Four strains of facultatively heterofermentative lactobacilli isolated from beer and human feces have physiological characteristics similar to those of Lactobacillus plantarum. Unlike 66% of the L. plantarum strains tested (F. Bringel, M.-C. Curk, and J.-C. Hubert, Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 46:588–594, 1996), these strains do not catabolize α-methyl-d-mannoside. However, because they exhibit little DNA relatedness to L. plantarum and Lactobacillus pentosus, these four strains were classified as members of a new species, Lactobacillus paraplantarum; strain CNRZ 1885 (= CIP 104668) is the type strain., language=, type=