DESCRIPTIONOF LIQUORILACTOBACILLUS AQUATICUS COMB. NOV.

Liquorilactobacillus aquaticus (a.qua ′ ti.cus. L. masc. adj. aquaticus, living, growing or found in water, or an aquatic environment).

Basonym: Lactobacillus aquaticus Mañes-Laetal . 2009, 2217 VP

L. aquaticus cells are motile rods, which grow at pH 4.5–8.0 but not at pH 3.3. There is no growth in 5 or 10 % NaCl.

The species is described in [197]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.41 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 37.4.

Isolated from a eutrophic freshwater pond.

Thetypestrainis IMCC1736 T = CECT 7355 T = DSM 21051 T =JCM 16869 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AYZD00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: DQ664203.