<Emphasis Type="Italic">Bacillus piscis</Emphasis> sp. nov., a novel bacterium isolated from the muscle of the antarctic fish <Emphasis Type="Italic">Dissostichus mawsoni</Emphasis>

In this paper, a new bacterial strain designated as 16MFT21^T is isolated from the muscle of a fish caught in the Antarctic Ocean. Strain 16MFT21^T is a Gram-staining-positive, catalase-oxidase-positive, rod-shaped facultative-aerobic bacterium. The phylogenetic analysis that is based on the 16S-rRNA gene sequence of strain 16MFT21^T revealed that it belongs to the genus Bacillus in the family Bacillaceae in the class Bacilli. The highest degrees of the sequence similarity of the strain 16MFT21^T is with Bacillus licheniformis ATCC 14580^T (96.6%) and Bacillus sonorensis NBRC 101234^T (96.6%). The isolate formed a pale-yellow pigment, and it grew in the presence of 0% to 10% (w/v) NaCl (optimum at 2% NaCl), a pH of 6.0 to 10.0 (optimum pH from 7.0 to 8.0), and from 4°C to 30°C (optimum at 30°C). The major polar lipids consist of diphosphatidylglycerol (DPG) and phosphatidylglycerol (PG). The predominant fatty acids are iso-C_15:0, anteiso-C_15:0, iso-C_17:0, and anteiso-C_17:0. The main respiratory quinone is menaquinone-7 (MK-7), and based on the use of the meso-diaminopimelic acid as the diagnostic diamino acid, the peptidoglycan cell-wall type is A1γ. Based on the phylogenetic, phenotypic, and chemotaxonomic data, strain 16MFT21^T (=KCTC 18866^T =JCM 31664^T) for which the name Bacillus piscis sp. nov. is proposed should be classified as a new species.