[organisms] see Clade Biota Wagner 2004 [Wiemann, de Queiroz, Rowe, Planavsky, Anderson, Gogarten, Turner & Gauthier 2020]
   Domain Bacteria Woese et al. 1990
     Phylum Firmicutes corrig. Gibbons and Murray 1978 (Approved Lists 1980)
       Class "Bacilli" Garrity et al. 2001 nom. ined. see Class Bacilli Ludwig et al. 2010
         Order "Lactobacillales" Garrity and Holt 2001 nom. nud. see Order Lactobacillales Ludwig et al. 2010
           Family "Leuconostocaceae" Garrity and Holt 2001 nom. nud. see Family Leuconostocaceae Schleifer 2010
             Genus Leuconostoc van Tieghem 1878 (Approved Lists 1980)
               [Leuconostoc mesenteroides] (Tsenkovskii 1878) van Tieghem 1878 (Approved Lists 1980)
                 1 Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. mesenteroidesᵀ (Tsenkovskii 1878) Garvie 1983
                 2 Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. cremoris (Knudsen and Sørensen 1929) Garvie 1983
                 3 Leuconostoc mesenteroides subsp. dextranicum (Beijerinck 1912) Garvie 1983