Ligilactobacillus equi, Zheng & Wittouck & Salvetti & Franz & Harris & Mattarelli & O’Toole & Pot & Vandamme & Walter & Watanabe & Wuyts & Felis & Gänzle & Lebeer, 2020

Zheng, Jinshui, Wittouck, Stijn, Salvetti, Elisa, Franz, Charles M. A. P., Harris, Hugh M. B., Mattarelli, Paola, O’Toole, Paul W., Pot, Bruno, Vandamme, Peter, Walter, Jens, Watanabe, Koichi, Wuyts, Sander, Felis, Giovanna E., Gänzle, Michael G. & Lebeer, Sarah, 2020, A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae and Leuconostocaceae, International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (4), pp. 2782-2858 : 2823

DESCRIPTION OF LIGILACTOBACILLUS EQUI COMB. NOV.

Ligilactobacillus equi (e′ qui. L. gen. n. equi , of the horse).

Basonym: Lactobacillus equi Morotomi et al. 2002 , 214 VP

Strains of this species are non-motile rods and some of them contain filamentous cells [ 219]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.30 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 39.0.

Isolated from faeces of horses.

The type strain is YIT 0455 T = ATCC BAA-261 T = DSM 15833 T = CCUG 47129 T = JCM 10991 T .

Genome accession number: AZFH00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AM 292799 .