sp. nov., novel species isolated from rainbow trout kidney.

This study describes the biochemical and phylogenetic characteristics of a Gram-negative strain, SNU WT1, isolated from rainbow trout kidney. The 16S rRNA gene sequencing indicated that strain SNU WT1 was highly similar to CCOS 864 and closely related to other -related strains. Multilocus sequence analysis of concatenated partial and sequences revealed that strain SNU WT1 was distinct from -related strains and formed a separate clade. The average nucleotide identity and Genome-to-Genome Distance Calculator values were 90.19 and 41.7 %with its closest relative CCOS 864; however, it was phenotypically distinct from CCOS 864 with respect to arginine dihydrolase, glucose fermentation, aesculin hydrolysis and -acetyl-glucosamine assimilation. The major polar lipid of the strain was phosphatidylethanolamine and the major quinone was Q-9. The genome of strain SNU WT1 had 5 685 196 bp with a G+C content of 61.83 mol%. We describe a novel species of genus , for which the name has been proposed, with SNU WT1 (=KCTC 72265=JCM 33436) as the type strain.