Ligilactobacillus, 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 : 2823

DESCRIPTION OF LIGILACTOBACILLUS CETI COMB. NOV.

Ligilactobacillus ceti (ce ′ ti. L. gen. n. ceti , of a whale).

Basonym: Lactobacillus ceti Vela et a l. 2008, 893 VP

Original characteristics of the species are described in [ 218]. The genome size of the type strain is 1.40 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 33.7.

Isolated from the lungs of a beaked whale.

The type strain is 142–2 T = CCUG 53626 T =DSM 22408 T = CECT 7185 T =JCM 15609 T.

Genome accession number: JQBZ00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AM292799.