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Devosia aurantiaca sp. nov., Isolated from Mountain Soil and Proposal of Albitalea gen. nov. to Replace the Illegitimate Prokaryotic Genus Name Geomonas Khan et al. 2020

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Strain H239T, a gram-negative, strictly aerobic, and oxidase-positive, and catalase-negative bacterium, was isolated from mountain soil in Gangwon-do of South Korea. Colonies were orange colored, and cells were motile rods with a single polar flagellum. Growth was observed between 25 and 30 °C (optimum, 30 °C), between pH 7.0 and pH 9.0 (optimum, pH 7.5), and in the presence of 0–1.5% (w/v) NaCl (optimum 0.5–1%). Ubiquinone-10 was detected as the sole respiratory quinone. The major fatty acids (>10%) of strain H239T were C18:1 ω7c, C18:0, and C16:0. The polar lipids detected from strain H239T consisted of two unidentified glycolipids, two unidentified phospholipids, and three unidentified polar lipids. The G+C content of strain H239T based on its genome sequence was 62.0 mol%. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that strain H239T was most closely related to Devosia chinhatensis IPL18T (97.7%), Devosia submarina KMM 9415T (97.7%), and Devosia yakushimensis Yak96BT (97.3%). Phylogenetic analyses based on the 16S rRNA gene and whole-genome sequences revealed that strain H239T formed a distinct phyletic lineage as a new species within the genus Devosia. Based on its physiological, chemotaxonomic, and molecular properties, strain H239T represents a novel species of the genus Devosia, for which the name Devosia aurantiaca sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is H239T (=KACC 21662T=JCM 33930T). In addition, because the prokaryotic genus name Geomonas Khan et al. 2020 is a later homonym of Geomonas Xu et al. 2020, the name is illegitimate (Principle 6 in the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes). Therefore, we propose to replace the problematic prokaryotic names Geomonas and Geomonas soli with Albitalea with Albitalea terrae, respectively.

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This work was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Biological Resources (NIBR No. 2020-02-001) of the Ministry of Environment (MOE), Republic of Korea.

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SAK isolated strain H239T and conducted main taxonomic analyses; HMK conducted the genomic sequencing of strain H239T and phylogenetic analyses; BHC conducted genomic analyses; COJ supervised the study and obtained funding; SAK wrote and COJ revised the manuscript; and all authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

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The GenBank accession numbers for the 16S rRNA gene and genome sequences of strain H239T are MN620432 and JAALFG000000000, respectively.

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Khan, S.A., Kim, H.M., Chun, B.H. et al. Devosia aurantiaca sp. nov., Isolated from Mountain Soil and Proposal of Albitalea gen. nov. to Replace the Illegitimate Prokaryotic Genus Name Geomonas Khan et al. 2020. Curr Microbiol 78, 2548–2555 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-021-02515-8

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