%0 Journal Article %A Goodman, Laura B. %A Lawton, Marie R. %A Franklin-Guild, Rebecca J. %A Anderson, Renee R. %A Schaan, Lynn %A Thachil, Anil J. %A Wiedmann, Martin %A Miller, Claire B. %A Alcaine, Samuel D. %A Kovac, Jasna %T Lactococcus petauri sp. nov., isolated from an abscess of a sugar glider %D 2017 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 67 %N 11 %P 4397-4404 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002303 %K genome %K Marsupialia %K Streptococcaceae %K farms %K aquaculture %K Lactococcus %I Microbiology Society, %X A strain of lactic acid bacteria, designated 159469T, isolated from a facial abscess in a sugar glider, was characterized genetically and phenotypically. Cells of the strain were Gram-stain-positive, coccoid and catalase-negative. Morphological, physiological and phylogenetic data indicated that the isolate belongs to the genus Lactococcus . Strain 159469T was closely related to Lactococcus garvieae ATCC 43921T, showing 95.86 and 98.08 % sequence similarity in 16S rRNA gene and rpoB gene sequences, respectively. Furthermore, a pairwise average nucleotide identity blast (ANIb) value of 93.54 % and in silico DNA–DNA hybridization value of 50.7  % were determined for the genome of strain 159469T, when compared with the genome of the type strain of Lactococcus garvieae . Based on the data presented here, the isolate represents a novel species of the genus Lactococcus , for which the name Lactococcus petauri sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 159469T (=LMG 30040T=DSM 104842T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002303