sp. nov., isolated from peat swamp forest soil.

A novel actinomycete, designated strain KK5PA1, was isolated from a soil sample collected from Kuan Kreng peat swamp forest, Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, Thailand. The morphological, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic characteristics were consistent with its classification in the genus . Strain KK5PA1 was most closely related to NEAU-HZ10 (98.0 %) and 701 (97.6 %). The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 72.3 mol%. Digital DNA-DNA hybridization and average nucleotide identity values between the genome sequence of strain KK5PA1 and those of DSM 42138(25.1 and 79.1 %) and DSM 41944(25.1 and 79.7%) were below the thresholds of 70 and 96 % for prokaryotic conspecific assignation. Chemotaxonomic data revealed that strain KK5PA1 possessed MK-9(H) and MK-9(H) as the predominant menaquinones. It contained lldiaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid and galactose, glucose, mannose and ribose as whole-cell sugars. The polar lipids consisted of diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol mannoside, two unidentified aminolipids, five unidentified phospholipids and an unidentified lipid. The predominant cellular fatty acids were iso-C, anteiso-C and C. On the basis of these genotypic and phenotypic data, it is proposed that strain KK5PA1 represents a novel species of the genus , for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is strain KK5PA1 (=TBRC 13094=NBRC 114802).