Exiguobacterium
aquaticum sp. nov., a member of the genus
Exiguobacterium
A Gram-positive, motile, short rod-shaped, orange pigmented bacterium, designated strain IMTB-3094T, was isolated from a water sample collected from Tikkar Tal Lake, Haryana, and subjected to detailed polyphasic taxonomic analysis. Strain IMTB-3094T possessed most of the phenotypic and chemotaxonomic properties of the genus Exiguobacterium and, based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, was assigned to this genus. Strain IMTB-3094T exhibited the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to Exiguobacterium mexicanum MTCC 7759T (99.5 %) followed by Exiguobacterium aurantiacum MTCC 6414T (99.1 %), Exiguobacterium aestuarii MTCC 7750T (98.0 %), Exiguobacterium profundum MTCC 10851T (98.0 %) and Exiguobacterium marinum MTCC 7751T (98.0 %). The G+C content of the genomic DNA of strain IMTB-3094T was 53.2 mol% and a DNA–DNA relatedness study confirmed that it represents a novel species. The major fatty acids of strain IMTB-3094T were iso-C17 : 0 (16.1 %), anteiso-C13 : 0 (19.0 %), iso-C13 : 0 (11.9 %), iso-C15 : 0 (9.8 %) and iso-C17 : 1 (12.7 %). The predominant quinones were MK-7 (55.0 %) and MK-6 (26.0 %) with minor amounts of MK-8 (12.0 %). Based on phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic analyses, strain IMTB-3094T represents a novel species of the genus Exiguobacterium , for which the name Exiguobacterium aquaticum sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is IMTB-3094T ( = MTCC 10958T = JCM 17977T).