Companilactobacillus bobalius, Zheng & Wittouck & Salvetti & Franz & Harris & Mattarelli & O’Toole & Pot & Vandamme & Walter & Watanabe & Wuyts & Felis & Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020

Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O’Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4), pp. 2782-2858 : 2803

DESCRIPTION OF COMPANILACTOBACILLUS BOBALIUS COMB. NOV.

Companilactobacillus bobalius (bo.ba’li.us. N.L. masc. adj. bobalius pertaining to the grape variety Bobal).

Basonym: Lactobacillus bobalius Mañes-Laet al. 2008, 2702 VP; the validity of the species was questioned but re-established on the basis of ANI values [ 119].

Growth occurs in the range of 15 to 40°C and with pentoses, hexoses, and disaccharides as carbon sources [ 120]. The genome size is 2.88 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 35.3.

Isolated from grape must and forage.

The type strain is 203 T = CECT 7310 T = DSM 19674 T = JCM 16180 T .

Genome sequence accession number: AZDY00000000.

16S RNA gene sequence accession number: AY681134 .