RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Chen, Wen-Ming A1 Sheu, Fu-Sian A1 Young, Chiu-Chung A1 Sheu, Shih-YiYR 2012 T1 Inhellafonticola sp. nov., isolated from spring water, and emended description of the genus Inhella JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 62 IS Pt_5 SP 1048 OP 1055 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.034884-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A yellow-pigmented bacterial strain designated TNR-25T was isolated from spring water in Taiwan and was characterized using a polyphasic taxonomic approach. Strain TNR-25T was Gram-negative, obligately aerobic, rod-shaped, non-motile and non-spore-forming. Growth occurred at 15–40 °C (optimum, 25 °C), at pH 6.0–10.0 (optimum, pH 7.0) and with 0–0.5 % NaCl (optimum, 0 %). Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain TNR-25T belonged to the genus Inhella and its closest neighbour was Inhella inkyongensis IMCC1713T with 98.1 % sequence similarity. The major fatty acids (>10 %) of strain TNR-25T were summed feature 3 (comprising C16 : 1ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c) and C16 : 0. The major cellular hydroxy fatty acids were C10 : 0 3-OH and C12 : 0 3-OH. The isoprenoid quinone was Q-8 and the DNA G+C content was 69.6 mol%. The polar lipid profile consisted of a mixture of phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylserine, diphosphatidylglycerol and several uncharacterized phospholipids. The DNA–DNA relatedness between strain TNR-25T and I. inkyongensis IMCC1713T was about 30.6–35.5 %. On the basis of the genotypic and phenotypic data, strain TNR-25T represents a novel species in the genus Inhella , for which the name Inhella fonticola sp. nov. is proposed; the type strain is TNR-25T ( = BCRC 80211T = LMG 25721T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.034884-0