Erratum to: Nocardioides soli sp. nov., a bacterium isolated from a mountain soil

Erratum to: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (2014) DOI 10.1007/s10482-014-0191-7

Subsequent to the publication of the above paper it has been brought to our attention that the species epithet proposed for the taxon represented by strain SR-1^T (= KEMC 9004-134^T = JCM 19684^T) is illegitimate as the name Nocardioides soli was coincidentally proposed by Sun et al. (Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 64:2047–2052, 2014) for a different taxon represented by strain mbc-2^T ( = KACC 17152^T = CCTCC AB 2012934^T).

To avoid further confusion, we propose here the corrected name for the taxon represented by strain SR-1^T (= KEMC 9004-134^T = JCM 19684^T).

Description of Nocardioides montaniterrae sp. nov.

Nocardioides montaniterrae (mon.ta.ni.ter’rae; L. adj. montanus, of a mountain; L. n. terra, soil; N.L. gen. n. montaniterrae, of mountain soil, where the type strain was isolated).

The description of the species is as given for “Nocardioides soli” in Srinivasan et al. (2014) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 106 (DOI: 10.1007/s10482-014-0191-7).

Cells are Gram-positive, aerobic, non-motile, and short-rod-shaped, about 0.5–0.7 μm in width and 1.0–1.2 μm in length. Colonies grown on NA (Difco) for 2 days are smooth, small and pale yellow in colour. Growth occurs at 15–37 °C (optimum about 30 °C) but no growth observed below 10 or above 42 °C. Growth occurs at pH 6.0–9.0 with optimum growth at pH 7. Cells tolerate up to 2 % NaCl (w/v) with optimum growth with no NaCl. Oxidase and catalase positive. Hydrolysis of Tween 80 and starch is positive but not casein. Growth is observed on R2A, LB and TSA media.

Negative in tests for nitrate reduction, indole production, glucose acidification, arginine dihydrolase and β-galactosidase; positive for urease, gelatinase and esculin hydrolysis in the API 20NE test. The following carbon sources are utilized in the API 20NE and API 32GN: acetate, N-acetyl-d-glucosamine, adipate, l-alanine, l-arabinose, gluconate, d-glucose, glycogen, l-histidine, 3-hydroxybenzoate, itaconate, d,l-lactate, d-mannose, phenyl acetate, propionate, d-ribose, l-serine and n-valerate. Utilization of the following substrates is negative: caprate, citrate, l-fucose, β-galactosidase (PNPG), 4-hydroxybenzoate, d,l-3-hydroxybutyrate, 2-ketogluconate (α), 5-ketogluconate, l-malate, malonate, d-maltose, d-mannitol, d-melibiose, myo-Inositol, l-proline, l-rhamnose, salicin, d-sorbitol, suberate and d-sucrose.

In assays with API ZYM, acid phosphatase, cystine arylamidase, esterase (C4), esterase (C8), α-fucosidase, α-glucosidase, leucine arylamidase, naphthol-AS-BI-phosphohydrolase, trypsin, and valine arylamidase are present, but N-acetyl-β-glucosaminidase, alkaline phosphatase, α-chymotrypsin, β-galactosidase (ONPG), α-galactosidase, β-glucosidase, β-glucuronidase, lipase (C14) and α-mannosidase are absent. Chemotaxonomic characteristics are the following. The predominant menaquinone is MK-8(H₄) and major polar lipids are phosphatidylglycerol and diphosphatidylglycerol. The major cellular fatty acids are iso-C_16:0, 10-methyl-C_18:0, and C_18:1 ω9c. The DNA G+C content of the type strain is 72.4 mol%.

The type strain, SR-1^T (= KEMC 9004-134^T = JCM 19684^T), was isolated from a mountain soil collected in Seoul Women’s University at South Korea. The NCBI GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain SR-1^T is KF955611.