Strain HaS4T is an aerobic sulfur-oxidizing bacterium isolated from water of Lake Harutori in Japan. It was isolated and partially characterized in a previous study, but its taxonomic status has not been determined. The previous study revealed that the strain is an obligate chemolithoautotroph which grows at temperatures ranging from 0 to 25 °C (optimum, 22 °C) and pH from pH 6.2 to 8.8 (optimum, pH 6.6–7.4). In this study, further characterization of the strain was made to describe it as representative of a novel species. Cells of strain HaS4T are rod-shaped, 1.6–2.5 µm long, 0.7–0.9 µm wide and Gram-stain-negative. Major cellular fatty acids were summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c), summed feature 8 (C18 : 1ω7c and/or C18 : 1ω6c) and C16 : 0. Phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene indicated that the strain is related to the genus Thiomicrorhabdus, but phylogenetically distinct from the type strains of existing species in the genus. On the basis of its phylogenetic and phenotypic properties, strain HaS4T (=NBRC 112315T=BCRC 81110T) is proposed as type strain of a new non-marine species of the genus Thiomicrorhabdus with the name Thiomicrorhabdus aquaedulcis sp. nov.
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