Paenibacillus sediminis sp. nov., a xylanolytic bacterium isolated from a tidal flat Wang, Liang and Baek, Sang-Hoon and Cui, Yingshun and Lee, Hyung-Gwan and Lee, Sung-Taik,, 62, 1284-1288 (2012), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.032102-0, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A Gram-positive, rod-shaped, xylanolytic, spore-forming bacterium, strain GTH-3T, was isolated from a tidal flat adjacent to Ganghwa Island, Republic of Korea, and was characterized to determine its taxonomic position. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, strain GTH-3T was shown to belong to the family Paenibacillaceae , being most closely related to the type strains of Paenibacillus ginsengisoli (94.9 %), Paenibacillus anaericanus (94.8 %), Paenibacillus urinalis (94.4 %), Paenibacillus cookii (94.2 %), Paenibacillus alvei (94.1 %) and Paenibacillus chibensis (94.0 %). The G+C content of the genomic DNA of strain GTH-3T was 45.9±0.2 mol% (mean±sd). The major menaquinone was MK-7. The major fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0 and iso-C16 : 0. The major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylethanolamine. Phenotypic and chemotaxonomic data supported the affiliation of strain GTH-3T to the genus Paenibacillus . The results of physiological and biochemical tests allowed strain GTH-3T to be distinguished genotypically and phenotypically from recognized species of the genus Paenibacillus . Strain GTH-3T is therefore considered to represent a novel species of the genus Paenibacillus , for which the name Paenibacillus sediminis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is GTH-3T ( = DSM 23491T  = LMG 25635T)., language=, type=