Companilactobacillus formosensis, 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 : 2804

DESCRIPTION OF COMPANILACTOBACILLUS FORMOSENSIS COMB. NOV.

Companilactobacillus formosensis (for.mo.sen’sis. N.L. masc. adj. formosensis of or pertaining to Formosa [ Taiwan] where the type strain was isolated).

Basonym: Lactobacillus formosensis Chang et al. 2015 , 105 VP

Growth is observed between 25 and 45°C but not at 10 °C; hexoses and disaccharides are fermented; pentoses are not fermented [ 123]. The genome size is 2.47 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 35.5.

Isolated from fermented soybean meal for use as poultry feed; it has been used experimentally as silage inoculant.

The type strain is S215 T = NBRC 109509 T = BCRC 80582 T .

Genome sequence accession number: QWDI00000000.

16S RNA gene sequence accession number: AB794060 .