Indiicoccus explosivorum gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from an explosives waste contaminated site.

A pink-pigmented, Gram-stain-positive, aerobic, coccoid-shaped bacterial strain, designated as S5-TSA-19, was isolated from an explosives contaminated site in Panchkula, Haryana, India. The 16S rRNA gene sequencing blast analysis indicated that the strain is a member of the family Planococcaceae with the highest sequence similarity to Planomicrobium soli XN13 (96.1 %), followed by Planococcus maitriensis S1 (95.