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 DNAis 33.7.

Isolated from the lungs of a beaked whale.

Thetypestrainis 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.