Hymenobacter monticola sp. nov., isolated from mountain soil

A Gram-reaction-negative, aerobic, non-motile, red-pigmented and rod-shaped bacterium, designated XF-6R T , was isolated from mountain soil in the Sichuan province of China. Phylogenetic trees based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that XF-6R T belonged to the genus Hymenobacter . The greatest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities of strain XF-6R T were with Hymenobacter soli PB17 T (96.4 %) and Hymenobacter saemangeumensis GSR0100 T (95.8 %). Summed feature 3 (C 16 : 1 ω7 c and/or C 16 : 1 ω6 c ), iso-C 15 : 0 , C 16 : 1 ω5 c and anteiso-C 15 : 0 were the major fatty acids (>10 %). The only menaquinone was menaquinone-7. The major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, four aminolipids, four phosphoaminolipids and three lipids. The DNA G+C content was 62 mol%. On the basis of the polyphasic taxonomic analysis, strain XF-6R T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Hymenobacter , for which the name Hymenobacter monticola sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is XF-6R T ( = KCTC 42733 T  = CCTCC AB 2015206 T ).