A Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped, non-motile and yellow-pigmented bacterial strain, designated strain JJ013 T , was isolated from an artificial lake in Jeollabuk-do, South Korea, and characterized using a polyphasic approach. The 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain JJ013T indicated that the isolate belonged to the family Flavobacteriaceae and exhibited similarity levels of 96.6 % to the type strains of Flavobacterium cheonanense and Flavobacterium koreense and 96.5 % to the type strain of Flavobacterium chungnamense. Growth was observed at 20-30 6C and pH 5.0-7.0. The major cellular fatty acids of the novel strain were iso-C 15 : 0 (27.5 %), iso-C 15 : 1 G (17.8 %), iso-C 17 : 0 3-OH (9.4 %) and iso-C 15 : 0 3-OH (9.2 %). Flexirubin-type pigments were present. The DNA G+C content of strain JJ013 T was 33.9 mol%, the major respiratory quinone was menaquinone-6 (MK-6) and the major polyamine was sym-homospermidine. The polar lipid profile of the strain JJ013 T consisted of a phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), two unknown aminolipids (AL1-2), three unidentified lipid (L1-3) and an unknown glycolipid (GL). On the basis of the morphological and physiological properties and biochemical evidence presented, it is concluded that strain JJ013 T represents a novel species of the genus Flavobacterium, for which the name Flavobacterium aciduliphilum sp. nov. is proposed; the type strain is JJ013 T (5KACC 16594). Since C 15 : 0 , which is known as a predominant fatty acid of the genus Flavobacterium was not detected in the novel strain and other reference strains, we propose an emended description of the genus Flavobacterium.The genus Flavobacterium accommodates Gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped and yellow-pigmented bacteria and belongs to the phylum Bacteroidetes. The strains of species of the genus Flavobacterium are found in a variety of environments such as soil, freshwater, seawater, wastewater, Antarctic lakes, gut of earthworm and fish tissues. Most species of the Flavobacterium are sensitive to salts and several species are known to cause diseases in freshwater fish (Bernardet & Bowman, 2006;Wakabayashi et al., 1989).
A bacterial strain JJ013T was isolated from the Lake Yongdam in Jinan, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea. The strain appeared as yellow colonies after 4 days cultivation at 25 u C on R2A agar (Difco) and was selected for characterization and sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene. For 16S rRNA gene sequencing and G+C content, chromosomal DNA was extracted by using a bacteria genomic DNA isolation kit (RBC). The 16S rRNA gene was amplified from the DNA by PCR (Marchesi et al., 1998) using universal bacterial primers 27F and 1492R. Because the similarity between selected strain and most related strains was lower than 96.6 %, it was studied further. The novel strain was routinely grown on R2A agar at 25 u C for 3 days and preserved at 270 u C as a suspension in R2A broth supplemented with glycerol [20 % (v/v)].The closest phylogenetic neighbours were identified using the EzTaxon database (Kim et al., 2012). Phylogenetic...