sp. nov., isolated from soil.

A Gram-stain-negative, catalase- and oxidase-positive and aerobic bacterium, designated strain R798, was isolated from soil in South Korea. Cells were motile rods by means of a single polar flagellum. Growth of strain R798 was observed at 15-35 °C (optimum, 25-30 °C), pH 5.0-8.0 (optimum, 6.0) and 0-1.5 % NaCl (optimum, 0.3 %). Strain R798 contained ubiquinone-8 as the sole isoprenoid quinone, summed feature 3 (C 7 and/or C 6) and C as the major fatty acids and phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylethanolamine as the major polar lipids. The DNA G+C content of strain R798 calculated from the whole genome sequence was 63.3 mol%. Phylogenetic analyses based on the 16S rRNA gene and whole genome sequences revealed that strain R798 formed a distinct phyletic lineage within the genus . Strain R798 was most closely related to B528-3 with a 98.0 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity. Average nucleotide identity and digital DNA-DNA hybridization values between strain R798 and the type strain of were 79.2 and 22.7 %, respectively. Based on the phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and molecular analyses, strain R798 represents a novel species of the genus , for which the name sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is R798 (=KACC 22114=JCM 34601).