sp. nov., isolated from charcoal.

A beige-pigmented, oxidase-positive bacterial isolate, Wesi-4, isolated from charcoal in 2012, was examined in detail by applying a polyphasic taxonomic approach. Cells of the isolates were rod shaped and Gram-stain negative. Examination of the 16S rRNA gene sequence of the isolate revealed highest sequence similarities to the type strains of and (both 97.3 %). Phylogenetic analyses on the basis of the 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated a separate position of Wesi-4, which was confirmed by multilocus sequence analyses (MLSA) based on the three loci , and and a core genome-based phylogenetic tree. Genome sequence based comparison of Wesi-4 and the type strains of and yielded average nucleotide identity values <95 % and DNA-DNA hybridization values <70 %, respectively. The polyamine pattern contains the major amines putrescine, cadaverine and spermidine. The quinone system contains predominantly ubiquinone Q-9 and in the polar lipid profile diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylethanolamine are the major lipids. The fatty acid contains predominantly C, summed feature 3 (Cω7 and/or Cω6) and summed feature 8 (Cω7 and/or C ω6). In addition, physiological and biochemical tests revealed a clear phenotypic difference from . These cumulative data indicate that the isolate represents a novel species of the genus for which the name sp. nov. is proposed with Wesi-4 (=DSM 110367=CIP 111764=CCM 9017) as the type strain.