Description of Candidatus Limosilactobacillus gallistercoris sp. nov.

Candidatus Limosilactobacillus gallistercoris (gal.li.ster’co.ris. L. masc. n gallus chicken; L. neut. n. stercus dung; N.L. gen. n. gallistercoris of chicken faeces)

A bacterial species identified by metagenomic analyses. This species includes all bacteria with genomes that show ≥95% average nucleotide identity (ANI) to the type genome, which has been assigned the MAG ID CHK158-2993 and which is available via NCBI BioSample SAMN15816598. The GC content of the type genome is 52.74% and the genome length is 1.2 Mbp.

Description of Candidatus Limosilactobacillus intestinavium sp. nov.

Candidatus Limosilactobacillus intestinavium (in.tes.tin.a’vi.um. L. neut. n. intestinum gut; L. fem. n. avis bird; N.L. gen. n. intestinavium of the gut of birds)

A bacterial species identified by metagenomic analyses. This species includes all bacteria with genomes that show ≥95% average nucleotide identity (ANI) to the type genome, which has been assigned the MAG ID 2331 and which is available via NCBI BioSample SAMN15816838. This is a new name for the alphanumeric GTDB species sp900557215. The GC content of the type genome is 38.77% and the genome length is 1.5 Mbp.

Description of Candidatus Limosilactobacillus intestinigallinarum sp. nov.

Candidatus Limosilactobacillus intestinigallinarum (in.tes.ti.ni.gal.li.na’rum. L. neut. n. intestinum gut; L. fem. n. gallina hen; N.L. gen. n. intestinigallinarum of the gut of the hens)

A bacterial species identified by metagenomic analyses. This species includes all bacteria with genomes that show ≥95% average nucleotide identity (ANI) to the type genome, which has been assigned the MAG ID CHK176-5070 and which is available via NCBI BioSample SAMN15816600. The GC content of the type genome is 54.91% and the genome length is 1.5 Mbp.

Description of Candidatus Limosilactobacillus intestinipullorum sp. nov.

Candidatus Limosilactobacillus intestinipullorum (in.tes.ti.ni.pul.lo’rum. L. neut. n. intestinum gut; L. masc. n. pullus a young chicken; N.L. gen. n. intestinipullorum of the gut of young chickens)

A bacterial species identified by metagenomic analyses. This species includes all bacteria with genomes that show ≥95% average nucleotide identity (ANI) to the type genome, which has been assigned the MAG ID ChiHecolR2B26-165 and which is available via NCBI BioSample SAMN15816601. The GC content of the type genome is 49.12% and the genome length is 1.6 Mbp.

Description of Candidatus Limosilactobacillus merdavium sp. nov.

Candidatus Limosilactobacillus merdavium (merd.a’vi.um. L. fem. n. merda faeces; L. fem. n. avis bird; N.L. gen. n. merdavium of bird faeces)

A bacterial species identified by metagenomic analyses. This species includes all bacteria with genomes that show ≥95% average nucleotide identity (ANI) to the type genome, which has been assigned the MAG ID 876 and which is available via NCBI BioSample SAMN15816723. The GC content of the type genome is 39.60% and the genome length is 1.4 Mbp.

Description of Candidatus Limosilactobacillus merdigallinarum sp. nov.

Candidatus Limosilactobacillus merdigallinarum (mer.di.gal.li.na’rum. L. fem. n. merda faeces; L. fem. n. gallina hen; N.L. gen. n. merdigallinarum of hen faeces)

A bacterial species identified by metagenomic analyses. This species includes all bacteria with genomes that show ≥95% average nucleotide identity (ANI) to the type genome, which has been assigned the MAG ID ChiSxjej3B15-572 and which is available via NCBI BioSample SAMN15816736. The GC content of the type genome is 44.36% and the genome length is 1.4 Mbp.

Description of Candidatus Limosilactobacillus merdipullorum sp. nov.

Candidatus Limosilactobacillus merdipullorum (mer.di.pul.lo’rum. L. fem. n. merda faeces; L. masc. n. pullus a young chicken; N.L. gen. n. merdipullorum of the faeces of young chickens)

A bacterial species identified by metagenomic analyses. This species includes all bacteria with genomes that show ≥95% average nucleotide identity (ANI) to the type genome, which has been assigned the MAG ID ChiHejej3B27-2180 and which is available via NCBI BioSample SAMN15816756. The GC content of the type genome is 49.90% and the genome length is 1.3 Mbp.

Description of Candidatus Limousia gen. nov.

Candidatus Limousia (Lim.ou’si.a. L. masc. n. limus dung; Gr. fem. n. ousia an essence; N.L. fem. n. Limousia a microbe associated with faeces)

A bacterial genus identified by metagenomic analyses. The genus includes all bacteria with genomes that show ≥60% average amino acid identity (AAI) to the type genome from the type species Candidatus Limousia pullorum. This is a name for the alphanumeric GTDB genus An172. This genus has been assigned by GTDB-Tk v1.3.0 working on GTDB Release 05-RS95 (Chaumeil et al., 2019; Parks et al., 2020) to the order Oscillospirales and to the family Acutalibacteraceae.