DESCRIPTIONOF SECUNDILACTOBACILLUS KIMCHICUS COMB. NOV.

Secundilactobacillus kimchicus (kim.chi’cus. N.L. neut. n. kimchium, kimchi; L. masc. suff. -icus pertaining to; N.L. masc. adj. kimchicus pertaining to or isolated from kimchi, a type of sauerkraut produced in Korea).

Basonym: Lactobacillus kimchicus Liang et al. 2011, 896 VP

Growth is observed at 15 and at 45 °C and between pH 5.0 and 9.0 [280]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.59 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 46.6.

The species was isolated from kimchi.

Thetypestrainis DCY51 T = JCM 15530 T = KCTC 12976 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZCX00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: EU678893.