sp. nov., isolated from a marsh.

A bacterial strain, designated KBP-31, was isolated from a water sample taken from the Banping Lake Wetland Park in Taiwan and characterized using a polyphasic taxonomic approach. Cells of strain KBP-31 were Gram-stain-negative, strictly aerobic, motile, light-yellow rods. Growth occurred at 10-37 °C (optimum 25 °C), at pH 6-8 (optimum pH 6) and with 0-1 % NaCl (w/v, optimum 0 %). Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain KBP-31 belonged to the genus and was most closely related to ATCC 51718 with a sequence similarity of 98.2 %. Strain KBP-31 contained summed feature 3 (comprising Cω7 and/or Cω6) and C as the predominant fatty acids. The major hydroxyl fatty acid was C 3-OH. The polar lipid profile consisted of phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, an uncharacterized aminophospholipid and two uncharacterized phospholipids. The DNA G+C content of the genomic DNA was 67.9 mol%. The DNA-DNA relatedness of strain KBP-31 with respect to recognized species of the genus was less than 70 %. On the basis of the phylogenetic inference and phenotypic data, strain KBP-31 should be classified as a novel species, for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is KBP-31 ( = BCRC 80524 = KCTC 32238).