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A novel Gram-negative, motile, nonsporulating, rod-shaped bacterium isolated from alkaline sludge-like wastes (‘alpeorujo’ or ‘alperujo’) of two-phase olive oil extraction is described. The strain, designated AW-7, is an obligate aerobe that is halotolerant (tolerating up to 15 % w/v NaCl), sugar-tolerant (tolerating up to 45 % and 60 % w/v (+)--glucose and maltose respectively; these are the highest concentrations tolerated by any known members of the domain) and alkalitolerant (growing at a broad pH range of 5–11). Strain AW-7 is chemo-organotrophic. Ubiquinone-9 was detected in the respiratory chain of strain AW-7. The major fatty acids present are C 7, C, C cyclo 8, C 3-OH and C 7/iso-C 2-OH. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, strain AW-7 showed almost equal phylogenetic distances from (95.6 % similarity) and (95.4 % similarity). In addition, low DNA–DNA relatedness values were found for strain AW-7 against CECT 4437 (22.5–25.4 %) and DSM 10491 (11.9–14.4 %). The DNA G+C content of strain AW-7 is 64.4 mol%. Physiological and chemotaxonomic data further confirmed the differentiation of strain AW-7 from the genera and . Thus, strain AW-7 represents a novel bacterial genus within the family , for which the name gen. nov. is proposed. sp. nov. (type strain AW-7=DSM 17697=CECT 7134) is proposed as the type species of the genus gen. nov. A reassignment of the descriptive 16S rRNA signature characteristics of the family permitted the placement of the novel genus into the family; in contrast, the genus possessed only 12 out of the 18 signature characteristics proposed, and hence it was excluded from the family .

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