sp. nov., from desert gravel soil.

A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-motile, pink-pigmented, coccus bacterium, designated CPCC 101081, was isolated from a gravel soil sample collected from Badain Jara desert, PR China. Growth of the isolate occurred at 10-37 °C and pH 5.0-8.0, with optimal growth at 28-32 °C and pH 7.0, respectively. The major cellular fatty acids were summed feature 8 (Cω7/C ω6), summed feature 3 (C ω6/Cω7) and C2-OH. Q-10 was detected as the main respiratory quinone. Diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylcholine, an unidentified phospholipid, an amino-containing lipid and an unidentified glycophospholipid were examined in the polar lipids extraction. The 16S rRNA gene sequence comparison of strain CPCC 101081 with the available sequences in the GenBank database showed that the isolate was closely related to members of the genus , with the highest similarity to DSM 14916 (97.4 %). In the phylogenetic trees based on 16S rRNA gene sequences and the core genomes, strain CPCC 101081 was included within the clade of the genus , representing a species level, with the closest neighbor of DSM 14916 . The genomic DNA G+C content was 68.7 mol%. The average nucleotide identity and the digital DNA-DNA hybridization values between strain CPCC 101081 and the related type strains of the genus were all far lower than the cut-off values for definition species. On the basis of above phenotypic and genotypic characteristics, strain CPCC 101081 is proposed to represent a novel species of the genus with the name sp. nov. strain CPCC 101081 (=KCTC 62852=NBRC 113512) is the type strain of the species.