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Abstract

The aim of this study was to clarify the taxonomic status of the species . A complete genome sequence for the type strain of was compared against that of the closely related type strain of The digital DNA–DNA hybridization and average nucleotide identity values between the two type strains was greater than two recognized thresholds for bacterial species delineation, indicating that they should belong to the same genomospecies. The psychrotolerant characteristic and signature sequences of 16S rRNA and genes were incapable of distinguishing from some non- strains. Meanwhile, the metabolic, physiological and chemotaxonomic features for the type strain of were shown to be congruent with those of . On this basis, the taxonomic affiliations of related strains from the Genbank database were determined using multilocus sequence typing and genomic analyses. Therefore, we propose as a later heterotypic synonym of and correction of erroneous species identifications for several strains.

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