and some characteristics in the description of the original
genus were not found in other species of the genus.
Therefore, the description of the genus Paenibacillus was
emended by Shida et al. (1997). Furthermore, Paenibacillus
polymyxa (Ash et al. 1993) was considered as the type
species of the genus by the Judicial Commission in 2005
(Judicial Commission of the International Committee for
Systematics of Prokaryotes 2005). At the time of writing,
154 species with validly published names were recognized
as members of the genus Paenibacillus (http://www.bacterio.
cict.fr/p/paenibacillus.html). Species belonging to this
genus were mostly aerobic or facultatively anaerobic, rodshaped,
endospore-forming bacteria, possessing anteiso-
C15:0 as the major cellular fatty acid and having genomic
DNA G + C contents in the range 39–54 mol % (Shida
et al. 1997; Montes et al. 2004; Takeda et al. 2005). In this
report, we describe two novel species belonging to the
genus Paenibacillus that were isolated from a cold spring
sample and carrot (Daucus L.) sample, respectively, and
they were both closely related to the species of Paenibacillus
hunanensis FeL05T (Liu et al. 2010).