Secundilactobacillus similis, 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 : 2836

DESCRIPTIONOF SECUNDILACTOBACILLUS SIMILIS COMB. NOV.

Secundilactobacillus similis (si’mi.lis. L. masc. adj. similis , similar, as the type strain is similar toclosely related species).

Basonym: Lactobacillus similis Kitahara et al. 2010 , 189 VP

S. similis grows at 15 but not at 45 °C [ 288]. The genome size of the type strain is 3.49 Mbp. The mol% G+C content of DNAis 47.0.

Isolated from fermented cane molasses at alcohol plants in Thailand and from rice wine (makgeolii).

Thetypestrainis M36 T = DSM 23365 T = JCM 2765 T =LMG 23904 T.

Genome sequence accession number: AYZM00000000. 16S rRNA gene accession number: AB282889 .