sp. nov., isolated from the soil of a forest.

A Gram-negative, rod-shaped, aerobic and light pink-pigmented bacterium, designated XAAS-A31, was isolated from the soil of a forest located near Hotan City, Xinjiang, PR China. Polyphasic, taxonomic and phylogenomic analyses were used to determine the taxonomy position of the strain. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that XAAS-A31 belongs to the genus , family , and shows highest sequence similarity to XAAS-R86 (96.

Litoribacter populi sp. nov., isolated from the soil of a Populus euphratica forest.

A Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped, and orange-pigmented bacterium, designated XAAS-A1, was isolated from the soil of a Populus euphratica forest. The main respiratory quinone of XAAS-A1 is MK-7, and the principal cellular fatty acids are iso-C, C ω6c, Iso-C 3OH, and summed feature 3 (Cω6c and/or Cω7c). The major polar lipids are phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylcholine, and two unidentified lipids.