DESCRIPTIONOF PAUCILACTOBACILLUS WASATCHENSIS COMB. NOV.

Paucilactobacillus wasatchensis (wa.satch.en’sis. N.L. masc. adj. wasatchensis of the Wasatch mountains in Utah, USA, the origin of the type strain).

Basonym: Lactobacillus wasatchensis Oberg et al. 2016, 163 VP

Growth is observed at 30 and 37°C but not at 45 °C. In MRS, only ribose and galactose are fermented [251]. The genome size of the type strain is 1.90 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 39.8.

Isolated from spoiled cheddar cheese and from silage.

Thetypestrainis WDC04 T = DSM 29958 T = LMG 28678 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AWTT00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: NR_147709.