Hymenobacter pedocola sp. nov., a novel bacterium isolated from soil Lim, Soo-Jeong and Ten, Leonid N. and Kim, Byung-Oh and Kang, In-Kyu and Jung, Hee-Young,, 68, 2242-2248 (2018), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002818, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= Strain S12-2-1T was isolated from a soil sample collected in the Gyeongsangnam-do province of the Republic of Korea. The isolate is a Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, short, rod-shaped bacterium, and its colonies are red to pink in colour. Analysis of the 16S rRNA gene identified strain S12-2-1T as a member of the genus Hymenobacter in the family Cytophagaceae , with high levels of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to Hymenobacter arizonensis OR362-8T (97.7 %), Hymenobacter sedentarius DG5BT (97.4 %) and Hymenobacter humi DG31AT (97.2 %). The isolate was positive for catalase and oxidase, but negative for acid production from glucose. The growth of strain S12-2-1T was supported at 4–30 °C, pH 7–10 and in the presence of 0–0.5 % NaCl. Strain S12-2-1T contained menaquinone-7 as the predominant respiratory quinone, sym-homospermidine as the major polyamine and iso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C15 : 0 and summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c/C16 : 1ω6c) as the major fatty acids. Phosphatidylethanolamine was the major polar lipid. The genomic DNA G+C content was 58.7 mol%. Phenotypic and chemotaxonomic data supported the assignment of the isolate to the genus Hymenobacter . However, strain S12-2-1T exhibited a relatively low level of DNA–DNA relatedness with H. humi (31.7 %), H. arizonensis (24.4 %) and H. sedentarius (21.3 %). Based on its phenotypic and genotypic properties, along with its phylogenetic distinctiveness, strain S12-2-1T should be considered a novel species in the genus Hymenobacter , for which the name Hymenobacter pedocola sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is S12-2-1T (=KCTC 52730T=JCM 32198T)., language=, type=