DESCRIPTIONOF LIQUORILACTOBACILLUS CACAONUM COMB. NOV.

Liquorilactobacillus cacaonum (ca.ca.o ′ num. N.L. gen. pl. n. cacaonum, of cacao beans).

Basonym: Lactobacillus cacaonum De Bruyne et al. 2009, 11 VP

L. cacaonum cells are non-motile small rods, they grow at 37C in MRS broth at pH 3.9; no growth is observed in MRS supplemented with NaCl [198]. The genome size of the type strain is 1.92 Mbp. Themol% G+C content of DNA is 33.9.

Isolated from cocoa fermentation.

Thetypestrainis R-34119 T = DSM 21116 T = LMG 24285 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AYZE00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AM905389.