DESCRIPTIONOF LACTIPLANTIBACILLUS PENTOSUS COMB. NOV. Lactiplantibacillus pentosus (pen.to ′ sus. N.L. masc. adj. pentosus, of pentose, pertainingto pentoses). Basonym: Lactobacillus pentosus (ex Fred et al. 1921) Zanoni etal. 1987, 339 VP The cells are non-motile straight rods and produce acid and clot in litmus milk [238]. The genome size of the type strain is 3.65 Mbp. Themol% G+C content of DNA is 46.3. Isolatedfromdiversesourcesincludingcorn silage, fermenting olives, sewage, fermented mulberry leaf powders, fermented teas, glutinousrice dough, corn noodles, chili sauce, mustard pickles, stinky tofu, dairy products, mustard pickle, fermented idli batter, tempoyak, human vagina, human stools, and sourdoughs. Thetypestrainis 124–2 T = ATCC 8041 T =CCUG 33455 T = CIP 103156 T =DSM 20314 T = JCM 1558 T =LMG 10755 T = NCAIM B.01727 T = NCCB 32014 T = NCIMB 8026 T (formerly NCDO 363)=NRRL B-227 T = NRRL B-473 T. Genome sequence accession number: AZCU00000000. 16S rRNA gene accession number: D79211.

Published as part of 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, pp. 2782-2858 in International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 on page 2827, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/4730536