Secundilactobacillus pentosiphilus, 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 : 2835-2836

DESCRIPTION OF SECUNDILACTOBACILLUS PENTOSIPHILUS COMB. NOV.

Secundilactobacillus pentosiphilus (pen.to.si’phi.lus. N.L. neut. n. pentosum pentose; Gr. masc. adj. philos, friend, loving; N.L. masc. adj. pentosiphilus , preferring pentoses).

Basonym: Lactobacillus pentosiphilus Tohno et al. 2017 , 3643 VP

Strains of this species do not produce acid or gas from hexoses including glucose but ferment pentoses; growth is observed between 30 and 37 °C [ 286]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.63 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 44.9.

Isolated from silage.

The type strain is IWT25 T = JCM 31145 T = DSM 102974 T . Genome sequence accession number: BCMI 00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: LC085284 .