DESCRIPTION OF LACTIPLANTIBACILLUS SONGBEIENSIS COMB. NOV.

Lactiplantibacillus songbeiensis (song.bei.en’sis. N.L. masc. adj. songbeiensis pertaining to Songbei, a district in Harbin city, China).

Basonym: Lactobacillus songbeiensis Liu and Gu 2019, 3259 VP

Characteristics are similar to L. pingfangensis but the type strain of L. songbeiensis also ferments ribose [233]. The genome size of the type strain is 3.03 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 44.4.

Isolated from fermented Chinese cabbage.

The type strain is 398–2 T = LMG 31174 T = NCIMB 15189 T = CCM 8931 T.

Genome sequence accession number: BJDL00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: LC438523.