DESCRIPTIONOF LIMOSILACTOBACILLUS EQUIGENEROSI COMB. NOV.

Limosilactobacillus equigenerosi (e.qui.ge.ne.ro’si. L. masc. n. equus, horse; L. masc. adj. generosus, of noble birth, well-bred; N.L. gen. n. equigenerosi, from a thoroughbred horse).

Basonym: Lactobacillus equigenerosi Endo et al. 2008, 917 VP

Acidtolerant and thermophilic organism; cells have acoccoid morphology [259]. The genome size of the type strain is 1.60 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 42.7.

Isolated from the intestinal tract of a thoroughbred horse.

Thetypestrainis NRIC 0697 T = JCM 14505 T =DSM 18793 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AZGC00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AB288050.