DESCRIPTIONOF COMPANILACTOBACILLUS PARALIMENTARIUS COMB. NOV.

Companilactobacillus paralimentarius (par.a.li.men.ta’ri.us. Gr. pref. para beside; L. masc. adj. alimentarius, aspecies epithet; N.L. masc. adj. paralimentarius beside C. alimentarius, referring to the close relationship with this organism).

Basonym: Lactobacillus paralimentarius Cai et al. 1999, 1455 VP

Thephysiologicalpropertiesof C. paralimentarius asdescribed [143] are similar to C. alimentarius . The genome size is 2.55 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 35.1.

Isolated from sourdough, other cereal fermentations, and from poultry meat.

Thetypestrainis TB 1 T =CCUG 43349 T =CIP 106794 T =DSM 13238 T =JCM 10415 T =LMG 19152 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZES00000000.

16S RNA gene sequence accession number: AB018528.