%0 Journal Article %A Lee, Se Hee %A Shim, Jae Kuk %A Kim, Jeong Myeong %A Choi, Hyung-Kyoon %A Jeon, Che Ok %T Henriciella litoralis sp. nov., isolated from a tidal flat, transfer of Maribaculum marinum Lai et al. 2009 to the genus Henriciella as Henriciella aquimarina nom. nov. and emended description of the genus Henriciella %D 2011 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 61 %N 4 %P 722-727 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.020396-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-staining-negative, strictly aerobic bacterium, designated strain SD10T, was isolated from a tidal flat of the Yellow Sea, South Korea. Cells were non-spore-forming rods that showed catalase- and oxidase-positive reactions. Growth of strain SD10T was observed at 15–40 °C (optimum, 25–30 °C), at pH 6.0–9.0 (optimum, pH 6.5–8.5) and in the presence of 1–10 % (w/v) NaCl. Strain SD10T contained ubiquinone-10 (Q-10) as a major isoprenoid quinone and C18 : 1ω7c (39.3 %), C16 : 0 (20.2 %), C17 : 0 (8.9 %) and C17 : 1ω6c (8.1 %) as major fatty acids. The cellular polar lipids were identified as phosphatidylglycerol, monoglycosyldiglyceride, glucuronopyranosyldiglyceride and two unidentified glycolipids. The G+C content of the genomic DNA was 55.2 mol%. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities, the strain was most closely related to Henriciella marina Iso4T and Maribaculum marinum P38T, with similarities of 97.8 and 97.0 %, respectively. The DNA–DNA relatedness between strain SD10T and H. marina Iso4T was 12.0±3.2 %. A phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that M. marinum P38T and H. marina Iso4T formed a monophyletic cluster and that their 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity was 98.1 %. DNA–DNA hybridization between H. marina Iso4T and M. marinum LMG 24711T was 22.9±2.7 %, indicating that the two strains belong to separate species. On the basis of chemotaxonomic data and molecular properties, we propose that strain SD10T represents a novel species of the genus Henriciella, for which the name Henriciella litoralis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is SD10T ( = KACC 13700T  = DSM 22014T). In addition, we propose to transfer Maribaculum marinum Lai et al. 2009 to the genus Henriciella as Henriciella aquimarina nom. nov. (type strain P38T  = CCTCC AB 208227T  = LMG 24711T  = MCCC 1A01086T), and we present an emended description of the genus Henriciella. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.020396-0