Rummeliibacillus suwonensis sp. nov., isolated from soil collected in a mountain area of South Korea

A Gram-positive, facultatively aerobic, rod-shaped, non-motile, terminal spore-forming bacterium, designated strain G20^T, was isolated from soil collected in a mountain region of Suwon, South Korea. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, this strain was shown to be related to Rummeliibacillus pycnus NBRC 101231^T (97.4%) and Rummeliibacillus stabekisii KSC-SF6g^T (95.7%). DNA-DNA hybridization studies showed 42% and 50% similarity of strain G20^T with R. pycnus NBRC 101231^T and R. stabekisii KSC-SF6g^T, respectively. The DNA G content of G20^T was 37.8 mol%, the major cellular fatty acids were iso-C_15:0 and anteiso-C_15:0, and the predominant menaquinones were MK-7 and MK-8. On the basis of phylogenetic, chemotaxonomic, and phenotypic characteristics, we propose this strain to be a novel species and the third member of genus Rummeliibacillus. We suggest the name Rummeliibacillus suwonensis sp. nov. The type strain is G20^T (KACC 17316^T =KEMB 9005-003^T =JCM 19065^T).