DESCRIPTIONOF COMPANILACTOBACILLUS MUSAE COMB. NOV.

Companilactobacillus musae (mu’sae. N.L. gen. n. musae of Musa; pertaining to banana fruit from Musa paradisiaca var. sapientum).

Basonym: Lactobacillus musae Chen et al. 2017, 5148 VP

Growth is observed between 25 and 37°C and with hexoses and disaccharides but not with pentoses as carbon sources [138]. The genome size is 2.35 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 34.6.

Isolated from banana fruits.

Thetypestrainis 313 T =NBRC 112868 T =BCRC 81020 T.

Genome sequence accession number: BIFW00000000.

16S RNA gene sequence accession number: LC184607.