Actinotalea ferrariae sp. nov., isolated from an iron mine, and emended description of the genus Actinotalea The family Cellulomonadaceae was originally defined by Stackebrandt & Prauser (1991) and included the genera Actinotalea (one species), Cellulomonas (21 species), Oerskovia (four species), Paraoerskovia (one species) and Tropheryma (one species). The genus Actinotalea was first described by Yi et al. (2007) with Actinotalea fermentans DSM 3133 T as the type strain. This type strain was previously isolated from dumping ground samples and identified as representing Cellulomonas fermentans (Bagnara et al., 1985). It was reclassified in the new genus Actinotalea based on the major respiratory quinone MK-10(H 4 ) and phylogenetic analysis results (Yi et al., 2007). The characteristics of A. fermentans were Gram-stainpositive, non-motile, facultatively anaerobic rods, containing L-Orn-D-Asp (type A4b) in the peptidoglycan, anteiso-C 15 : 0 , C 16 : 0 , iso-C 16 : 0 , C 14 : 0 and iso-C 14 : 0 as the major fatty acids (.5 %), MK-10(H 4 ) as the major isoprenoid quinone, diphosphatidylglycerol (DPG) and phosphatidylglycerol (PG) as the major polar lipids, and possessing relatively high DNA G+C content of 75.8 mol% (Bagnara et al., 1985;Yi et al., 2007;Shi et al., 2012). The main difference between the genera Cellulomonas and Actinotalea was the major respiratory quinone Iron mining powder was collected from Hongshan Iron Mine (about 100 m underground, 30 u 049 38.770 N 114u 579 24.070 E) of Daye City, Hubei Province, China. The pH and the total C, N, P, S and Fe concentrations were described in a previous study (Chen et al., 2012). For bacterial isolation, serially diluted samples were spread on R2A (Difco) agar plates and incubated at 28 u C for 7 days. A single colony of strain CF5-4 T was picked and subcultivated. Routine cultivation was performed at 28 u C for 4 days on trypticase soy agar (TSA) and the strain was preserved at 280 u C in trypticase soy broth (TSB) supplemented with glycerol (25 %, v/v , were cultivated on TSA agar or in TSB and incubated at 28 u C for 4 days unless otherwise mentioned. Gram staining was performed using the method described by Dussault (1955) combined with the KOH lysis method (Ryu, 1938). Cell morphology was observed using a scanning electron microscope (JSM-6390; JEOL) and a transmission electron microscope (H-7650; Hitachi). Growth at 4, 15, 20, 28, 37, 40 and 45 u C was tested on Abbreviations: DPG, diphosphatidylglycerol; PG, phosphatidylglycerol.The GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ accession number for the 16S rRNA gene sequence of Actinotalea ferrariae CF5-4 T is HQ730135.