Levilactobacillus namurensis, 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 : 2838

DESCRIPTION OF LEVILACTOBACILLUS NAMURENSIS COMB. NOV.

Levilactobacillus namurensis (na.mur.en’sis. N.L. masc. adj. namurensis , of the province of Namur, Belgium, the source of isolation of the type strain).

Basonym: Lactobacillus namurensis Scheirlinck et al. 2007 , 226 VP

Characteristics of the species are as described [ 297]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.48 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 52.0.

Isolated from wheat sourdough and from vegetable fermentations.

The type strain is DSM 19117 T = CCUG 52843 T = JCM 15612 T = LMG 23583 T .

Genome sequence accession number: AZDT00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AM 259119 .