sp. nov., isolated from a natural salt meadow.

A Gram-stain-negative bacterium, designated I-24, was isolated from soil of a natural salt meadow. Strain I-24 was aerobic, non-motile, rod-shaped, catalase-positive, oxidase-positive and grew optimally at pH 7 and 25 °C. Comparative 16S rRNA gene analysis indicated that strain I-24 has closest similarities to KCTC 52727 (95.9 %) and KCTC 52035 (95.5 %). Strain I-24 contained summed feature 3 (C 7/C 6) and C 5 as the major fatty acids, the predominant respiratory quinone was menaquinone MK-7, and the major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine as well as an unidentified phosphoaminolipid. The draft genome of strain I-24 consists of 10 326 072 base pairs with 9153 predicted coding sequences and a G+C content of 47.7 mol%. Clear distinctions between strain I-24 and KCTC 52727 or KCTC 52035 were shown in the pairwise average nucleotide identity results with values of 76.71 and 74.01 %, respectively. Moreover, the digital DNA-DNA relatedness values to these strains were 20.8 and 19.0 %. Based on its phenotypic, genotypic and chemotaxonomic characteristics, strain I-24 represents a novel species of the genus , for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is I-24 (DSM 111055=KCTC 72613).