Terrilactibacillus tamarindi sp. nov., isolated from bark of Tamarindus indica

A Gram-stain-positive, catalase-positive, facultatively anaerobic, terminal-spore-forming rod, designated strain BCM23-1T, was isolated from bark ofTamarindus indicacollected from Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. This strain producedd-lactic acid from glucose. It grew at 20–45 °C (optimum, 30 °C), pH 3.5–9 (optimum, pH 7.0) and in the presence of 1–4 % (w/v) NaCl. The cell-wall peptidoglycan containedmeso-diaminopimelic acid (A1γ). The major isoprenoid quinone was menaquinone 7 (MK-7). Polar lipids analysis revealed the presence of diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, an unidentified aminophospholipid, an unidentified phospholipid and an unidentified lipid. The predominant cellular fatty acids were anteiso-C17 : 0, anteiso-C15:0,and iso-C16 : 0when cultivated on GYP agar plates. The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity between strain BCM23-1TandTerrilactibacillus laevilacticusNK26-11Twas 98.3 %. The draft genome of BCM23-1Twas 3.24 Mb in size and contained 3088 coding sequences with anin silicoDNA G+C content of 37.1 mol%. The values of ANIb, ANIm and digital DNA–DNA hybridization between strain BCM23-1TandT. laevilacticusNK26-11Twere 89.9, 90.8 and 40.4 %, respectively. The results of phenotypic and chemotaxonomic, 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, and whole genome analyses support strain BCM23-1Tas representing a novel species ofTerrilactibacillusfor which the nameTerrilactibacillus tamarindisp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is BCM23-1T(=LMG 31662T=JCM 33748T=TISTR 2841T).