Reply to the Letter to the Editor by Paul O. Sheridan, Sylvia H. Duncan, Alan W. Walker, Karen P. Scott, Petra Louis and Harry J. Flint, referring to our paper ‘Reclassification of Eubacterium rectale (Prévot et al. 1967) in a new genus Agathobacter gen. nov., as Agathobacter rectalis comb. nov., within the family Lachnospiraceae, and description of Agathobacter ruminis sp. nov., from the rumen’, Int J Syst Evol Microbiol, DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.000788 Rosero, Jaime A. and Killer, Jirˇí and Sechovcová, Hana and Mrázek, Jakub and Benada, Oldrˇich and Fliegerová, Katerˇina and Havlík, Jaroslav and Kopečný, Jan,, 66, 2107-2107 (2016), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000993, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= , language=, type=