DESCRIPTIONOF COMPANILACTOBACILLUS HEILONGJIANGENSIS COMB. NOV.

Companilactobacillus heilongjiangensis (hei.long.ji.ang.en’sis. N.L. masc. adj. heilongjiangensis pertainingto Heilongjiang, a river flowing through the province of China where the bacterium was isolated).

Basonym: Lactobacillus heilongjiangensis Gu et al. 2013, 4098 VP

Hexoses and disaccharides but not pentoses are fermented [130]. The genome size is 2.79 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 37.5.

Isolated from fermented vegetables and type I sourdough.

Thetypestrainis S4-3 T =LMG 26166 T =DSM 28069 T =NCIMB 14701 T.

Genome sequence accession number: CP012559.

16S RNA gene sequence accession number: JF411966.