Phaeodactylibacter xiamenensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Saprospiraceae isolated from the marine alga Phaeodactylum tricornutum Chen, Zhangran and Lei, Xueqian and Lai, Qiliang and Li, Yi and Zhang, Bangzhou and Zhang, Jingyan and Zhang, Huajun and Yang, Luxi and Zheng, Wei and Tian, Yun and Yu, Zhiming and Xu, Hong and Zheng, Tianling,, 64, 3496-3502 (2014), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.063909-0, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A novel Gram-staining-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped, non-motile, reddish-orange and chemoheterotrophic bacteria, designated strain KD52T, was isolated from a culture of the alga Phaeodactylum tricornutum from Xiamen, Fujian Province, China. 16S rRNA gene sequence comparison showed that strain KD52T was a member of the family Saprospiraceae , forming a distinct lineage with ‘Portibacter lacus’ KCTC 23747. The 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity between strain KD52T and the type strains of species of the family Saprospiraceae ranged from 86 % to 89 %. Growth occurred at 20–37 °C (optimum, 28 °C), in the presence of 1–9 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 2.5 %) and at pH 5–8.5 (optimum, pH 6.0). The dominant fatty acids (>10 %) of strain KD52T were iso-C15 : 0 (33.1 %), iso-C15 : 1 G (14.8 %) and summed feature 3 (comprising C16 : 1ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c, 13.8 %). The major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, three unidentified phospholipids, four unknown lipids and one unidentified aminolipid. The DNA G+C content was 51 mol% and the major respiratory quinone was menaquinone-7 (MK-7). On the basis of phenotypic data and phylogenetic inference, strain KD52T represents a novel species of a new genus, for which the name Phaeodactylibacter xiamenensis gen. nov., sp. nov., is proposed. The type strain is KD52T ( = MCCC 1F01213T = KCTC 32575T)., language=, type=