was reclassified as L. gelidum subsp. gasicomitatum comb. nov. and some novel strains isolated from packaged meat products were found to represent a novel subspecies, for which the name L. gelidum subsp. aenigmaticum subsp. nov. was proposed. The proposal of these two novel subspecies created automatically the subspecies L. gelidum subsp. gelidum subsp.
nov., and thus L. gelidumcomprises currently three phylogenetically distinct subspecies