DESCRIPTIONOF PAUCILACTOBACILLUS VACCINOSTERCUS COMB. NOV.

Paucilactobacillus vaccinostercus (vac.ci.no.ster’cus; L. masc. adj. vaccinus, from cows; L. neut. n. stercus, manure; N.L. masc. adj. vaccinostercus, from cow manure).

Basonym: Lactobacillus vaccinostercus Okada et al. 1979, 439 VL. Some strains of the species were previously designated as Lactobacillus durianis [246]

Growth occurs between 15 and 40 °C, pH 4.4 and 7.5, and with pentoses, glucose and maltose as carbon source [247]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.57 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 43.9.

Isolated from cow dung and from fermented tea leaves and fermented cereals.

Thetypestrainis X-94 T = TUA 055BT=ATCC 33310 T = DSM 20634 T = LMG 9215 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AYYY00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AJ621556.