A Gram-stain-negative, yellow-pigmented, motile, flagellated and rod-shaped bacterium, designated as 13AT, was isolated from a river sediment sample of Fuyang River in Hengshui City, Hebei Province, PR China. Strain 13AT grew at 10–37 °C (optimum, 30 °C), at pH 5.0–11.0 (optimum, pH 7.0) and at 0–7 % (w/v) NaCl concentration (optimum, 0 %). Phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene sequence showed that strain 13AT belongs to the genus
Lysobacter
, and was most closely related to
Lysobacter spongiicola
DSM 21749T (97.8 %),
Lysobacter concretionis
DSM 16239T (97.5 %),
Lysobacter daejeonensis
GIM 1.690T (97.3 %) and
Lysobacter arseniciresistens
CGMCC 1.10752T (96.9 %). Meanwhile, the type species
Lysobacter enzymogenes
ATCC 29487T was selected as a reference strain (95.2 %). The genomic size of strain 13AT was 3.0 Mb and the DNA G+C content was 69.0 %. The average nucleotide identity values between strain 13AT and each of the reference type strains
L. spongiicola
DSM 21749T,
L. concretionis
DSM 16239T,
L. daejeonensis
GIM 1.690T,
L. arseniciresistens
CGMCC 1.10752T and
L. enzymogenes
ATCC 29487T were 75.9, 76.1, 77.7, 78.0 and 73.2 %, respectively. The digital DNA–DNA hybridization values between strain 13AT and each of the reference type strains were 21.7, 22.2, 21.9, 22.7 and 23.2 %, respectively. The average amino acid identity values between strain 13AT and each of the reference type strains were 72.5, 72.9, 72.3, 75.0 and 69.2 %, respectively. The major fatty acids were iso-C15 : 0, iso-C16 : 0 and summed feature 9 (iso-C17 : 1
ω9c and/or C16 : 0 10-methyl). The sole respiratory quinone was identified as ubiquinone-8. The polar lipid profile contained phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, an unidentified aminolipid, an unidentified lipid, four unidentified phospholipids and two unidentified glycolipids. Based on the phenotypic, physiological, phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic data, strain 13AT represents a novel species of the genus
Lysobacter
, for which the name Lysobacter selenitireducens sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is 13AT (=JCM 34786T=GDMCC 1.2722T).