RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Srinivas, A. A1 Divyasree, B. A1 Sasikala, Ch. A1 Tushar, L. A1 Bharti, Dave A1 Ramana, Ch. V.YR 2016 T1 Description of Jeotgalibacillus alkaliphilus sp. nov., isolated from a solar salt pan, and Jeotgalibacillus terrae sp. nov., a name to replace ‘Jeotgalibacillus soli’ Chen et al. 2010 JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 66 IS 12 SP 5167 OP 5172 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001491 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A Gram-stain-positive, non-motile, rod-shaped bacterium (strain JC303T) isolated from a salt pan was identified based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis as a member of the genus Jeotgalibacillus . It was related most closely to Jeotgalibacillus salarius ASL-1T (99.1 % similarity), J eotgalibacillus alimentarius YKJ-13T (97.9 %), J eotgalibacillus soli JSM 081008 (97.9 %), J eotgalibacillus malaysiensis D5T (97.8 %), J eotgalibacillus marinus DSM 1297T (96.3 %), J eotgalibacillus campisalis SF-57T (96.1 %) and J. soli P9T (94.9 %). Genomic relatedness based on DNA–DNA hybridization of strain JC303T with the type strains of the closest related species was less than 40 %. Diphosphatidylglycerol, three aminophospholipids, an unidentified aminoglycolipid, two unidentified phospholipids and an unidentified lipid were the polar lipids of strain JC303T. Major (>10 %) fatty acids were anteiso-C15 : 0, iso-C15 : 0 and iso-C14 : 0. Cell-wall amino acids contained peptidoglycan with l-lysine as the diagnostic diamino acid. Strain JC303T contained MK-7 as the predominant (96 %) menaquinone with the presence of a significant amount (4 %) of MK-8. The DNA G+C content was 43 mol%. On the basis of morphological, physiological, genotypic, phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic analyses, strain JC303T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Jeotgalibacillus , for which the name Jeotgalibacillus alkaliphilus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is JC303T (=KCTC 33662T=LMG 28756T). In addition, we propose to rename J. soli (Chen et al., 2010), an illegitimate homonym of the validly published name Jeotgalibacillus soli (Cunha et al., 2012) as Jeotgalibacillus terrae sp. nov. with type strain JSM 081008T (=DSM 22174T=KCTC 13528T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001491