Liquorilactobacillus cacaonum, CACAONUM, 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, pp. 2782-2858 : 2819

DESCRIPTIONOF LIQUORILACTOBACILLUS CACAONUM COMB. NOV.

Liquorilactobacillus cacaonum (ca.ca.o ′ num. N.L. gen. pl. n. cacaonum , of cacao beans).

Basonym: Lactobacillus cacaonum De Bruyne et al. 2009 , 11 VP

L. cacaonum cells are non-motile small rods, they grow at 37C in MRS broth at pH 3.9; no growth is observed in MRS supplemented with NaCl [ 198]. The genome size of the type strain is 1.92 Mbp. Themol% G+C content of DNA is 33.9.

Isolated from cocoa fermentation.

Thetypestrainis R-34119 T = DSM 21116 T = LMG 24285 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AYZE00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AM905389 .