Companilactobacillus, 2020

Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O’Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70, pp. 2782-2858 : 2808-2809

DESCRIPTION OF COMPANILACTOBACILLUS ZHONGBAENSIS COMB. NOV.

Companilactobacillus zhongbaensis (zhong.ba.en´sis. N.L. masc. adj. zhongbaensis from Zhongba, a county in Tibet, China, where the type strain was isolated).

Basonym: Lactobacillus zhongbaensis Wei and Gu 2019 , 3193 VP

Growth is observed at 15 and 37 °C but not at 45 °C; DL-lactic acid is produced from a broad range of pentoses, hexoses and disaccharides [ 118]. The genome size is 3.04 Mbp, the mol% G+C content is 39.4.

Isolated from a fermented dairy product.

The type strain is 15149 T =CCM 8892 T.

M1575 T =LMG 31045 T =NCIMB

Genome sequence accession number: RHOM00000000.

16S RNA gene sequence accession number: MK110832.