Ligilactobacillus animalis, 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 : 2822

DESCRIPTIONOF LIGILACTOBACILLUS ANIMALIS COMB. NOV.

Ligilactobacillus animalis (a.ni.ma ′ lis. L. gen. n. animalis , of an animal).

Basonym: Lactobacillus animalis Dent and Williams 1983 , 439 VP; Effective publication: Dent and Williams 1982, 384

L. animalis strains grow at 45 °C, cells in exponential growth phase occur singly or in pairs [ 216]. The genome size of the type strain is 1.89 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNA is 41.1

Isolated from dental plaques and intestines of animals.

Thetypestrainis 535 T = ATCC 35046 T =CCUG 33906 T = CIP 103152 T =DSM 20602 T = IFO (now NBRC) 15882 T = JCM 5670 T =LMG 9843 T = NCIMB 13278 T (formerly NCDO 2425 T)=NRRL B-14176 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AYYW00000000.

16S rRNA gene accession number: AB326350 .