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An obligately anaerobic spirochaete designated strain JC227 was isolated from the gut of a wood-eating cockroach, (Scudder), from the Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, India. Strain JC227 was Gram-stain-negative, mesophilic, halotolerant and alkaliphilic. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, strain JC227 belongs to the genus , with JC133 (99.51 %), JC202 (99.30 %), Z-7491 (99.10 %), (98.54 %) and other members of the genus ( < 92.7 %) as its closest phylogenetic neighbours. However, DNA–DNA hybridization between strain JC227 and JC133, JC202, DSM 8900 and DSM 14872 was 62 ± 2, 63, 58 ± 2 and 48 ± 4 %, respectively. Strain JC227 contained phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, an unidentified glycolipid and six unidentified lipids. Summed feature Cω7/Cω6 was the predominant cellular fatty acid, with significant proportions of C, C, C, Cω6, Cω5, Cω6/Cω7 and C 2-OH. The DNA G+C content of strain JC227 was 55.5 mol%. On the basis of physiological, biochemical, chemotaxonomic (including metabolomic) and genomic differences from previously described taxa, strain JC227 can be differentiated from members of the genus and represents a novel species of a new genus, for which the name gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of is JC227 ( = KCTC 15343 = NBRC 110105). We also propose the reclassification of , , and as comb. nov. (type strain JC133 = KCTC 15220 = NBRC 109056), comb. nov. (type strain JC202 = KCTC 15324 = NBRC 110104), comb. nov. (type strain Z-7491 = DSM 8900 = ATCC 700262) and comb. nov. (type strain ASpG1 = ATCC BAA-392 = DSM 14872). The type species of gen. nov. is comb. nov.

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