DESCRIPTIONOF LIMOSILACTOBACILLUS FERMENTUM COMB. NOV.

Limosilactobacillus fermentum (fer.men ′ tum. L. neut. n. fermentum which causes fermentation, leaven, ferment).

Basonym: Lactobacillus fermentum Beijerinck 1901, 233 (Approved Lists). The species includes strains previously classified as Lactobacillus cellobiosus [254]

L. fermentum is the only species in Limosilactobacillus that is not adapted to the intestine of vertebrates [17]. The genome size of the type strain is 1.90 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 52.4.

Occurs widely in spontaneously fermented cereals and other fermenting plant materials [58, 255], also in dairy products, manure and sewage, and the faeces and vagina of humans.

Thetypestrainis F (352) T = ATCC 14931 T = DSM 20052 T =CIP 102980 T = JCM 1173 T =LMG 6902 T.

Genome sequence accession number: JQAU00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: JN175331.