A non-motile, red-pigmented bacterium, designated strain HMD1010 T , was isolated from an artificial lake located within the campus of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Yongin, Korea. A phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain HMD1010 T formed a lineage within the genus Hymenobacter and was closely related to the type strains of Hymenobacter rigui (96.7 % sequence similarity) and H. gelipurpurascens (95.6 %). The major fatty acids were C 16 : 1 v5c (21.9 %),

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... ed feature 3 (iso-C 15 : 0 2-OH and/or C 16 : 1 v7c; 17.2 %), iso-C 15 : 0 (14.5 %) and summed feature 4 (anteiso-C 17 : 1 B and/or iso-C 17 : 1 I; 11.9 %). The DNA G+C content was 60.4 mol%. On the basis of the evidence presented in this study, strain HMD1010 T represents a novel species of the genus Hymenobacter, for which the name Hymenobacter yonginensis sp. nov. was proposed. The type strain is HMD1010 T (5KCTC 22745 T 5CECT 7546 T ).