Ekhidna lutea gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the phylum Bacteroidetes isolated from the South East Pacific Ocean Alain, Karine and Tindall, Brian J. and Catala, Philippe and Intertaglia, Laurent and Lebaron, Philippe,, 60, 2972-2978 (2010), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.018804-0, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A novel aerobic, heterotrophic bacterium, designated BiosLi39T, was isolated from the South East Pacific Ocean. Cells were Gram-negative gliding rods forming yellow colonies on marine agar. The isolate was oxidase-, catalase- and alkaline phosphatase-positive and β-galactosidase-negative. Strain BiosLi39T grew at 20-37 °C (optimum 30 °C), at pH 7.0–9.0 (optimum pH 8.0) and with 20–60 g NaCl l−1 (optimum 30–50 g NaCl l−1). The fatty acids (>1 %) comprised iso-C14 : 0, iso-C15 : 1 G, iso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C15 : 0, C15 : 1 G, C15 : 0, iso-C15 : 0 2-OH, iso-C16 : 1 G, iso-C16 : 0, iso-C16 : 0 3-OH, iso-C16 : 0 2-OH, iso-C17 : 0 3-OH, C17 : 0 2-OH and three unidentified components with equivalent chain lengths of 17.87, 18.10 and 18.71. A significant proportion of the hydroxylated fatty acids are amide-linked. The lipid pattern indicated the presence of phosphatidylethanolamine, two unidentified aminolipids and three unidentified polar lipids. The strain contained menaquinone 7 as the sole respiratory lipoquinone and did not produce flexirubin-type pigments. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 37.2 mol%. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that strain BiosLi39T was distantly related to all of the representatives of the phylum Bacteroidetes. Its closest relative was Marinoscillum furvescens IFO 15994T, with which it shared 92.5 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity. On the basis of genotypic, phenotypic and chemotaxonomic characteristics, we propose a novel genus and species, Ekhidna gen. nov., sp. nov., with type strain BiosLi39T (=DSM 19307T =CIP 109600T =OOB 398T)., language=, type=