DESCRIPTIONOF COMPANILACTOBACILLUS FORMOSENSIS COMB. NOV.

Companilactobacillus formosensis (for.mo.sen’sis. N.L. masc. adj. formosensis of or pertaining to Formosa [Taiwan] where the type strain was isolated).

Basonym: Lactobacillus formosensis Chang et al. 2015, 105 VP

Growth is observed between 25 and 45°C but not at 10 °C; hexoses anddisaccharides are fermented; pentoses are not fermented [123]. The genome size is 2.47 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 35.5.

Isolatedfrom fermented soybean meal for useas poultry feed; it has been used experimentally as silage inoculant.

Thetypestrainis S215 T =NBRC 109509 T =BCRC 80582 T.

Genome sequence accession number: QWDI00000000.

16S RNA gene sequence accession number: AB794060.