Pedobacter aquicola sp. nov., isolated from freshwater.

A non-motile, pink-pigmented bacterial strain designated IMCC25679, was isolated from freshwater Lake Chungju of Korea. Phylogenetic trees based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that the strain IMCC25679 formed a lineage within the genus Pedobacter. The strain IMCC25679 was closely related to Pedobacter daechungensis Dae 13 (96.4% sequence similarity), Pedobacter rivuli HME8457 (95.3%) and Pedobacter lentus DS-40 (94.3%). The major fatty acids of IMCC- 25679 were iso-C, iso-C and summed feature 3 (comprising Cω6c and/or Cω7c). The major respiratory quinone was MK-7. The major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), an unidentified sphingolipid (SL), an unidentified aminolipid (AL) and three unidentified polar lipids (PL). The DNA G + C content of IMCC25679 was 32.2 mol%. Based on the evidence presented in this study, the strain IMCC25679 represents a novel species within the genus Pedobacter, with the proposed name Pedobacter aquicola, sp. nov. The type strain is IMCC25679 (= KACC 19486 = NBRC113131).