DESCRIPTIONOF SECUNDILACTOBACILLUS SIMILIS COMB. NOV.

Secundilactobacillus similis (si’mi.lis. L. masc. adj. similis, similar, as the type strain is similar toclosely related species).

Basonym: Lactobacillus similis Kitahara et al. 2010, 189 VP

S. similis grows at 15 but not at 45 °C [288]. The genome size of the type strain is 3.49 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 47.0.

Isolated from fermented cane molasses at alcohol plants in Thailand and from rice wine (makgeolii).

Thetypestrainis M36 T = DSM 23365 T = JCM 2765 T =LMG 23904 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AYZM00000000. 16S rRNA gene accession number: AB282889.