DESCRIPTIONOF LAPIDILACTOBACILLUS CONCAVUS COMB. NOV.

Lapidilactobacillus concavus (con.ca’vus. L. masc. adj. concavus, curved, referring to the curved shape of the cells).

Basonym: Lactobacillusconcavus Tong and Dong 2005, 2201 VP

Cells of L. concavus arenon-motile curved rods; the optimum pH for growth is 6.0–6.4; they can also grow at 8 % (v/v) ethanol but not in 6.5 % (w/v) NaCl [148]. The genome size of the type strain is 1.90 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 43.3.

Isolated from the walls of a distilled-spirit-fermenting cellar in China.

Thetypestrainis C-5–1 T =DSM 17758 T =AS 1.5017 T =JCM 14153 T =LMG 22739 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZFX00000000. 16S rRNA gene accession number: AY683322.