%0 Journal Article %A Hwang, Woon Mo %A Ko, Yongseok %A Kang, Keunsoo %A Ahn, Tae-Young %T Paludirhabdus telluriireducens gen. nov., sp. nov. and Paludirhabdus pumila sp. nov., isolated from soil of a mountain wetland and emended description of Gorillibacterium massiliense %D 2018 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 68 %N 9 %P 3040-3046 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002946 %K Paenibacillaceae %K Firmicutes %K Paludirhabdus %K Paludirhabdus telluriireducens %K wetland %I Microbiology Society, %X Two strains of Gram-stain-positive, endospore-forming, motile by means of peritrichous flagella, aerobic or facultative anaerobic, and rod-shaped bacteria that were designated ON8T and ON6T were isolated from soil collected from a mountain wetland in Gwang-ju, Republic of Korea. The isolates were catalase-positive and oxidase-negative. Cells of ON8T and ON6T grew at 15–35 °C (optimal 30 °C) and 15–40 °C (optimal 30 °C), respectively. The major menaquinone was MK-7 and the major cellular fatty acids (>10 % of the total) were anteiso-C15 : 0, iso-C15 : 0, C14 : 0 and C16 : 0. The predominant polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, aminophospholipid and phospholipid. Meso-diaminopimelic acid was the diagnostic diamino acid in the cell-wall peptidoglycan. The DNA G+C contents of strains ON8T and ON6T were 50.6 and 53.5 mol%, respectively, and the 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that the nearest phylogenetic neighbour of both strains was Gorillibacterium massiliense G5T (93.9 %), followed by the members of the genus Paenibacillus in the family Paenibacillaceae . The DNA–DNA hybridization relatedness value between ON8T and ON6T was 44.1 %, which indicated that they represented distinct species. Based on polyphasic characteristics, a novel genus is proposed with the name Paludirhabdus gen. nov., which consists of two species, Paludirhabdus telluriireducens sp. nov. (the type species; type strain ON8T=KACC 19267T=JCM 31958T) and Paludirhabdus pumila sp. nov. (type strain ON6T=KACC 19266T=JCM 31957T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002946