Fibrella aestuarina gen. nov., sp. nov., a filamentous bacterium of the family Cytophagaceae isolated from a tidal flat, and emended description of the genus Rudanella Weon et al. 2008 Filippini, Manuela and Svercel, Miroslav and Laczko, Endre and Kaech, Andres and Ziegler, Urs and Bagheri, Homayoun C.,, 61, 184-189 (2011), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.020503-0, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A Gram-staining-negative, pink bacterium, designated strain BUZ 2T, was isolated from coastal mud from the North Sea (Fedderwardersiel, Germany). Cells were rod-shaped and able to form multicellular filaments. Growth after 7 days was observed at 10–40 °C, at pH 6–8 and with 0–0.5 % NaCl. The phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain BUZ 2T is a member of the family Cytophagaceae, its closest neighbours being Rudanella lutea 5715S-11T, Spirosoma linguale LMG 10896T and Spirosoma panaciterrae Gsoil 1519T (87.8, 86.4 and 86.1 % sequence similarity, respectively). The major fatty acids were summed feature 3 (comprising C16 : 1 ω7c and/or iso-C15 : 0 2-OH), C16 : 1 ω5c and iso-C15 : 0. The predominant respiratory quinone was MK-7 and the major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine and several unidentified aminophospholipids. The DNA G+C content was 56.5 mol%. On the basis of this polyphasic study, we propose that strain BUZ 2T represents a novel genus and species, for which the name Fibrella aestuarina gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Fibrella aestuarina is BUZ 2T (=DSM 22563T =CCUG 58136T). An emended description of the genus Rudanella is also proposed., language=, type=