DESCRIPTIONOF LEVILACTOBACILLUS NAMURENSIS COMB. NOV.

Levilactobacillus namurensis (na.mur.en’sis. N.L. masc. adj. namurensis, of the province of Namur, Belgium, the source of isolation of the type strain).

Basonym: Lactobacillus namurensis Scheirlinck et al. 2007, 226 VP

Characteristics of the species are as described [297]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.48 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 52.0.

Isolated from wheat sourdough and from vegetable fermentations.

Thetypestrainis DSM 19117 T = CCUG 52843 T =JCM 15612 T =LMG 23583 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZDT00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AM259119.