A Gram-reaction-negative, strictly aerobic, motile, rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain BZ78(T), was isolated from soil from an industrial site. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain BZ78(T) belonged to the family Rhodospirillaceae and formed a coherent cluster with the type strain of Tistrella mobilis (98.3 % pairwise similarity). The predominant cellular fatty acids of strain BZ78(T) were C₁₈:₁ω7c (58.3 %), C₁₉:₀ω8c cyclo (11.5 %), C₁₈:₁ 2-OH (10.9 %) and C₁₄:₀ 3-OH (6.4 %). The predominant ubiquinone was Q-10. The genomic DNA G+C content of strain BZ78(T) was 65.8 mol%. On the basis of phenotypic characteristics, phylogenetic analysis and DNA-DNA relatedness data, strain BZ78(T) is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Tistrella, for which the name Tistrella bauzanensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is BZ78(T) ( = DSM 22817(T) = CGMCC 1.10188(T) = LMG 26047(T)).