DESCRIPTIONOF LIGILACTOBACILLUS AVIARIUS COMB. NOV.

Ligilactobacillus aviarius (a.vi.a’ri.us. L. masc. adj. aviarius, pertainingto birds).

Basonym: Lactobacillus aviarius Fujisawa et a l. 1985, 223 VP; Fujisawa et al. 1986; Effective publication: Fujisawa et al., 1984, 419

The cells are non-motile rods with rounded ends, occurring singly or in short chains. The final pH of glucose broth is 3.9–4.0. This species is strictly anaerobic [51]. The genome size of the type strain is 1.68 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 40.1.

Isolated from the intestine and faeces of birds.

Thetypestrainis 75 T = ATCC 43234 T =DSM 20655 T = CCUG 32230 T =CIP 103144 T = JCM 5666 T =LMG 10753 T = NBRC 102162 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AYZA00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: M58808.