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A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped, non-spore-forming bacterium (SV325) was isolated from the sediment of a hypersaline lake located 4600 m above sea level (Laguna Vilama, Argentina). Strain SV325 formed cream to pink colonies, was motile and moderately halophilic, and tolerated NaCl concentrations of 1–25 % (w/v) with an optimum of 5–10 % (w/v). Growth occurred at 5–40 °C (optimum around 30 °C) and at pH 5.0–10.0 (optimum 7.0–8.0). The bacterium did not produce exopolysaccharides and stained positively for intracellular polyphosphate granules but not for poly-β-hydroxyalkanoates. It produced catalase and oxidase, reduced nitrate to nitrite, hydrolysed gelatin, did not produce acids from sugars and utilized a limited range of substrates as carbon and energy sources: acetate, caproate, fumarate, -β-hydroxybutyrate, malate, maleate, malonate and succinate. The predominant ubiquinones were Q-9 (92.5 %) and Q-8 (7.5 %), the major fatty acids were C cyclo ω8, C, C cyclo and Cω7/iso-C 2-OH, and the DNA G+C content was 55.0 mol%. Phylogenetic analyses based on the 16S rRNA gene indicated that strain SV325 belongs to the genus in the class . Physiological and biochemical tests allowed phenotypic differentiation of strain SV325 from closely related species with validly published names. We therefore propose a novel species, sp. nov., with type strain SV325 ( = DSM 21020  = LMG 24332).

Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service, US Department of Agriculture (Award ILLU-875-389)
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