DESCRIPTIONOF LEVILACTOBACILLUS KOREENSIS COMB. NOV.

Levilactobacillus koreensis (ko.re.en’sis. N.L. masc. adj. koreensis of Korea, where the type strain was isolated).

Basonym: Lactobacillus koreensis Naam Bui et al. 2011, 774 VP

Characteristics of the species are as described [296]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.47 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 49.6.

Isolated from cabbage kimchi and from sourdough.

Thetypestrainis DCY50 T = JCM 16448 T =KCTC 13530 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZDP00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: FJ904277.