%0 Journal Article %A Kim, Dong-Uk %A Kim, Ju-Young %A Jang, Jun Hwee %A Kim, Myung Kyum %T Pontibacter terrae sp. nov., isolated from soil %D 2018 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 68 %N 10 %P 3184-3189 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002964 %K polyphasic study %K Pontibacter %K novel species %I Microbiology Society, %X A bacterial strain, designated 17SD1-15T, was isolated from soil. Cells of this strain were Gram-stain-negative and aerobic rods. The major fatty acids of strain 17SD1-15T were iso-C15 : 0 and summed feature 4 (anteiso-C17 : 1 B and/or iso-C17 : 1 I). The polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, one phospholipid and five unidentified lipids. The G+C content of the genomic DNA of strain 17SD1-15T was 49.0 mol%. The 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain 17SD1-15T was phylogenetically related to Pontibacter saemangeumensis GCM0142T, Pontibacter korlensis X14-1T, Pontibacter yuliensis H9XT, Pontibacter diazotrophicus H4XT and Pontibacter humi SWU8T (98.3, 96.4, 96.4, 96.4 and 96.0 % sequence similarity, respectively). DNA–DNA relatedness between 17SD1-15T and the most closely related type strain of Pontibacter species was 42.9±0.8 %. The low level of DNA–DNA relatedness identified strain 17SD1-15T as a member of a novel species in the genus Pontibacter . The results of genotypic and phenotypic data, including chemotaxonomic traits, showed that strain 17SD1-15T could be distinguished from its phylogenetically related species. Therefore, strain 17SD1-15T represents a novel species within the genus Pontibacter , for which the name Pontibacter terrae sp. nov. is proposed, with the type strain 17SD1-15T (=KCTC 52915T=NBRC 113057T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002964