DESCRIPTIONOF LIMOSILACTOBACILLUS INGLUVIEI COMB. NOV.

Limosilactobacillus ingluviei (in.glu’vi.ei. L. gen. n. ingluviei of a crop sac).

Basonym Lactobacillus ingluviei Baele et al. 2003, 135 VP. The species includesstrains previously named as L. thermotolerans [262].

Thermophilic species with optimal growth at 42 °C and poor growth at 30 °C or below [263]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.16 Mbp. Themol% G+C content of DNA is 49.9.

Isolated from the crop of a pigeon [263], birds (turkeys, chickens, geese) but also from cattle, carnivore faeces, and Korean rice wine (makgeolii).

Thetypestrainis KR3 T = DSM 15946 T = LMG 20380 T =CCUG 45722 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZFK00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AF333975.