Nevskia terrae sp. nov., isolated from soil.

A Gram-negative bacterium, designated KIS13-15(T), was isolated from soil in Korea. Cells were strictly aerobic rods and were motile with 1-3 subpolar flagella. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis revealed that strain KIS13-15(T) belonged to the order Xanthomonadales of the class Gammaproteobacteria and was closely related to Nevskia soli GR15-1(T) (97.9 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity) and Nevskia ramosa Soe1(T) (96.8 %). Strain KIS13-15(T) exhibited 38 and 29 % DNA-DNA relatedness with N. soli KACC 11703(T) and N. ramosa DSM 11499(T), respectively. The major fatty acids (>10 % of the total) were C(18 : 1)ω7c (40.6 %) and C(16 : 0) (12.4 %). The major isoprenoid quinone was ubiquinone 8. DNA G+C content was 67.3 mol%. The phenotypic characterization combined with 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis and DNA-DNA hybridization clearly classified strain KIS13-15(T) in a novel species of the genus Nevskia, for which the name Nevskia terrae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is KIS13-15(T) ( = KACC 12736(T)  = JCM 15425(T)).