“…The genus Pedobacter , a member of the family Sphingobacteriaceae of the phylum Bacteroidetes (Margesin & Shivaji, 2010), was proposed by Steyn et al (1998) with the reclassification of Sphingobacterium heparinum and Sphingobacterium piscium and the descriptions of two novel species, Pedobacter africanus and Pedobacter saltans . At the time of writing, the genus comprised at least 52 species with validly published names (http://www.bacterio.net/pedobacter.html; Euzéby, 1997; Du et al , 2015; Ngo et al , 2015; Park et al , 2015). Members of the genus Pedobacter have been isolated from a variety of habitats, including temperate and Antarctic soils, glacial cryoconites and foreland samples, activated sludge, fish, aquatic environments, a nitrifying inoculum, compost, chilled food and tree material (Steyn et al , 1998; Margesin et al , 2003; Vanparys et al , 2005; Baik et al , 2007; Muurholm et al , 2007; Gordon et al , 2009; Lee et al , 2009; Zhou et al , 2012; Derichs et al , 2014; Farfán et al , 2014; Qiu et al , 2014; Du et al , 2015).…”