Lentilactobacillus otakiensis, 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 : 2845

DESCRIPTION OF LENTILACTOBACILLUS OTAKIENSIS COMB. NOV.

Lentilactobacillus otakiensis (o.ta.ki.en’sis. N.L. masc. adj. otakiensis from Otaki, the village in Japan, from where the type strain was isolated).

Basonym: Lactobacillus otakiensis Watanabe et al. 2009 , 758 VP

Physiological characteristics and origin are similar to L. kisonensis [ 333]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.35 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 42.4.

Isolated from sunki, a fermented turnip product and from kefir.

The type strain is YIT 11163 T = DSM 19908 T = JCM 15040 T = NRIC 0742 T .

Genome sequence accession number: AZED00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AB366386 .