DESCRIPTIONOF LIGILACTOBACILLUS ANIMALIS COMB. NOV.

Ligilactobacillus animalis (a.ni.ma ′ lis. L. gen. n. animalis, of an animal).

Basonym: Lactobacillus animalis Dent and Williams 1983, 439 VP; Effective publication: Dent and Williams 1982, 384

L. animalis strains grow at 45 °C, cells in exponential growth phase occur singly or in pairs [216]. The genome size of the type strain is 1.89 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 41.1

Isolated from dental plaques and intestines of animals.

Thetypestrainis 535 T = ATCC 35046 T =CCUG 33906 T = CIP 103152 T =DSM 20602 T = IFO (now NBRC) 15882 T = JCM 5670 T =LMG 9843 T = NCIMB 13278 T (formerly NCDO 2425 T)=NRRL B-14176 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AYYW00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AB326350.