Liquorilactobacillus capillatus, 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 : 2819

DESCRIPTION OF LIQUORILACTOBACILLUS CAPILLATUS COMB. NOV.

Liquorilactobacillus capillatus (ca.pil.la’tus. L. masc. adj. capillatus , hairy, referring to the characteristic of having long, hairy flagella).

Basonym: Lactobacillus capillatus Chao et al. 2008, 2557 VP

L. capillatus cells are motile by means of peritrichous flagella; they grow at pH 4.0 and pH 8.0 but they do not grow at 8 % NaCl [ 199]. The genome size of the type strain is 2.24 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 37.6.

Isolated from fermented brine used for stinky tofu production.

The type strain is YIT 11306 T = BCRC 17811 T = DSM 19910 T = JCM 15044 T .

Genome sequence accession number: AZEF00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AB365976 .