sp. nov., isolated from poultry feather waste.

A Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped, non-motile, non-spore-forming, aerobic, yellow-pigmented bacterium was isolated from chicken feather waste collected from an abattoir in Bloemfontein, South Africa. A polyphasic taxonomy study was used to describe and name the bacterial isolate, strain 1_F178. The 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis and sequence comparison data indicated that strain 1_F178 was a member of the genus and was closely related to (99.1%) and (98.7%). Overall genome similarity metrics (average nucleotide identity, digital DNA-DNA hybridization and average amino acid identity) revealed greatest similarity to the and type strains but were below the threshold for species delineation. Genome sequencing revealed a genome size of 6.18 Mbp and a G+C content of 35.6 mol%. The major respiratory quinone and most abundant polar lipid of strain 1_F178 were menaquinone-6 and phosphatidylethanolamine, respectively. Strain 1_F178 had a typical fatty acid composition for species. On the basis of physiological, genotypic, phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic data, strain 1_F178 constitutes a novel species of , for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 1_F178 (=LMG 30779=KCTC 62759).