Clostridium beihaiense sp. nov., an anaerobic bacterium isolated from activated sludge Dong, Yingying and Liu, Yuhui and Chen, Nanchun and Zhong, Yijian and Liu, Li and Xie, Qinglin,, 68, 2789-2793 (2018), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002885, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A Gram-positive, strictly anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium, designated YB-7T, was isolated from activated sludge of an anaerobic baffled reactor pond in Weizhou terminal wastewater treatment plant, Beihai, Guangxi, China. Strain YB-7T grew at pH 5.0–12.0 (optimum, pH 7.0), 20–45 °C (37 °C) and NaCl concentration of 0–5 % w/v (optimum, 5 %). 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis results showed that strain YB-7T belonged to the genus Clostridium and it was most closely related to Clostridium tetanomorphum DSM 4474T (96.9 % similarity). The DNA–DNA relatedness of strain YB-7T to Clostridium tetanomorphum DSM 4474T was 47.4 %. The DNA G+C content of strain YB-7T was determined to be 32.3 mol%, and the predominant cellar fatty acid (>10 %) was C16 : 0. Polar lipids of strain YB-7T included diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethylethanolamine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine, two unidentified aminophospholipids, two unidentified phospholipids and unidentified lipids. The results of this study supported the conclusion that strain YB-7T should be assigned to a new member of the genus Clostridium , for which the name Clostridium beihaiense sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is YB-7T (=CICC 24109T=KCTC 15555T)., language=, type=