DESCRIPTIONOF LIQUORILACTOBACILLUS CAPILLATUS COMB. NOV.

Liquorilactobacilluscapillatus (ca.pil.la’tus. L. masc. adj. capillatus, hairy, referring to the characteristic of having long, hairy flagella).

Basonym: Lactobacillus capillatus Chao et al. 2008, 2557 VP

L. capillatus cells are motile by means of peritrichous flagella; they grow at pH 4.0 and pH 8.0 but they do not grow at 8 % NaCl [199]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.24 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 37.6.

Isolatedfromfermentedbrineusedforstinkytofu production.

Thetypestrainis YIT 11306 T = BCRC 17811 T =DSM 19910 T = JCM 15044 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZEF00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AB365976.