Lactobacillus terrae is a later heterotypic synonym of Lactobacillus metriopterae Zhao, Wei and Gu, Chun Tao,, 69, 1597-1600 (2019), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003364, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= Lactobacillus metriopterae and Lactobacillus terrae are closely related, and they share 99.5 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, 98.4 % pheS gene sequence similarity, 99.6 % rpoA gene sequence similarity, 97.9 % average nucleotide identity value and 81.3 % in silico DNA–DNA hybridization value, showing that they have the same taxonomic position. L. terrae should be reclassified as L. metriopterae . L. terrae is a later heterotypic synonym of L. metriopterae ., language=, type=