sp. nov., isolated from soil.

A strict aerobic bacterium, strain JW14 was isolated from soil in the Republic of Korea. Cells were Gram-stain-positive, non-endospore-forming and motile rods showing catalase-positive and oxidase-negative activities. Growth of strain JW14 was observed at 20-37 °C (optimum, 30 °C), pH 6.0-10.0 (optimum, pH 7.0) and in the presence of 0-2.0% NaCl (optimum, 0%). Strain JW14 contained menaquinone-7 as the sole isoprenoid quinone, anteiso-C, C and iso-C as the major fatty acids (>10.0%), and diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, three unidentified aminophospholipids and an unidentified lipid as the major polar lipids. The cell-wall peptidoglycan of strain JW14 contained -diaminopimelic acid. The DNA G+C content of strain JW14 calculated from the whole genome sequence was 48.1 mol%. Strain JW14 was most closely related to DSM 15220 with 97.4% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain JW14 formed a distinct phyletic lineage from closely related type strains within the genus . Based on the results of phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and molecular analyses, strain JW14 represents a novel species of the genus , for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is JW14 (=KACC 21840=JCM 34279).