sp. nov., isolated from cow milk cheese in Nigeria.

During microbial assessment of cow milk cheese products in the city of Ilorin, Nigeria, a -like isolate was detected that could not be assigned to any known species. Whole-genome sequence analyses against all currently known 26 species confirmed that this isolate constitutes a new taxon within the genus , with highest similarity to (average nucleotide identity blast of 82.66%, DNA-DNA hybridization of 28.