DESCRIPTIONOF COMPANILACTOBACILLUS BOBALIUS COMB. NOV.

Companilactobacillus bobalius (bo.ba’li.us. N.L. masc. adj. bobalius pertaining to the grape variety Bobal).

Basonym: Lactobacillus bobalius Mañes-Laetal . 2008, 2702 VP; the validity of the species was questioned but re-established on the basis of ANI values [119].

Growth occurs in the range of 15 to 40°C and with pentoses, hexoses, and disaccharides as carbon sources [120]. The genome size is 2.88 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 35.3.

Isolated from grape must and forage.

Thetypestrainis 203 T =CECT 7310 T =DSM 19674 T =JCM 16180 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZDY00000000.

16S RNA gene sequence accession number: AY681134.