DESCRIPTIONOF LACTICASEIBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS COMB. NOV.

Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus (rham.no’sus. N.L. masc. adj. rhamnosus pertaining to rhamnose).

Basonym Lactobacillus rhamnosus (Hansen 1968, Collins et al. 1989, 108 VP ( Lactobacillus casei subsp. rhamnosus Hansen 1968 [172],

Original characteristics of L. rhamnosus strainsare described in by [172]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.95 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 46.7.

The species has a nomadic lifestyle and was isolated from a broad range of habitats including dairy products, fermented meat, fish, vegetables and cereals, sewage, humans (oral, vaginal and intestinal), invertebrate hostsand clinical sources [17, 169].

Thetypestrainis ATCC 7469 T =CCUG 21452 T =CIP A157 T =DSM 20021 T =NBRC 3425 T =JCM 1136 T =LMG 6400 T =NCAIM B.01147=NCCB 46033 T =NCIMB 6375 T =NCTC 12953 T = NRRL B-442 T =VKM B-574 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZCQ00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: D16552.