Ligilactobacillus aviarius, 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, pp. 2782-2858 : 2823

DESCRIPTIONOF LIGILACTOBACILLUS AVIARIUS COMB. NOV.

Ligilactobacillus aviarius (a.vi.a’ri.us. L. masc. adj. aviarius , pertainingto birds).

Basonym: Lactobacillus aviarius Fujisawa et a l. 1985, 223 VP; Fujisawa et al. 1986; Effective publication: Fujisawa et al., 1984, 419

The cells are non-motile rods with rounded ends, occurring singly or in short chains. The final pH of glucose broth is 3.9–4.0. This species is strictly anaerobic [ 51]. The genome size of the type strain is 1.68 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 40.1.

Isolated from the intestine and faeces of birds.

Thetypestrainis 75 T = ATCC 43234 T =DSM 20655 T = CCUG 32230 T =CIP 103144 T = JCM 5666 T =LMG 10753 T = NBRC 102162 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AYZA00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: M58808 .