The genus Janibacter was proposed by Martin et al. (1997) with the type species Janibacter limosus. The genus Janibacter belongs to the family Intrasporangiaceae in the order Actinomycetales. There are currently four species in the genus Janibacter : Janibacter limosus (Martin et al., 1997), Janibacter terrae (Yoon et al., 2000), Janibacter melonis (Yoon et al., 2004) and Janibacter anophelis (...