DESCRIPTIONOF 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 Physiologicalcharacteristics and originare 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 =JCM15040T=NRIC 0742T. Genome sequence accession number: AZED00000000. 16S rRNA gene accession number: AB366386.

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 2845, DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.004107, http://zenodo.org/record/4730536