The two strains shared 100% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity and showed the highest sequence similarity, 94.2%, with Pedobacter daechungensis Dae 13T, followed by Pedobacter lentus KCTC 12875T (93.2%). Sequence similarity with all other species of the genus Pedobacter was ,93%. Phylogenetic trees were constructed using the neighbour-joining and maximum-parsimony methods and the Kimura two-parameter model in MEGA version 3.1 (Kumar et al., 2004). The topology of the phylogenetic tree