%0 Journal Article %A Liu, Zhi-Pei %A Wang, Bao-Jun %A Dai, Xin %A Liu, Xing-Yu %A Liu, Shuang-Jiang %T Zhouia amylolytica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from sediment of the South China Sea %D 2006 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 56 %N 12 %P 2825-2829 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64587-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X Three Gram-negative, non-spore-forming strains were isolated from sediment from the South China Sea, China, and their taxonomic positions were investigated using a polyphasic approach. Strains HN-171T, HN-172 and HN-181 grew optimally at 30 °C, in the presence of 4.5–5.0 NaCl % (w/v) and at pH 7.2–7.4. They contained MK-6 as the predominant respiratory quinone and contained iso-C15 : 1 G, iso-C15 : 0, summed feature 4 (iso-C15 : 0 2-OH and/or C16 : 1 ω7c/t) and C15 : 0 as the major fatty acids. The DNA G+C content of strain HN-171T was 34.5 mol%. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences demonstrated that strain HN-171T, together with strains HN-172 and HN-181, formed a distinct evolutionary lineage within the family Flavobacteriaceae. The 16S rRNA gene sequences of strains HN-171T, HN-172 and HN-181 shared 99.8–100 % similarity with each other, and the sequence of strain HN-171T exhibited similarity values below 90.2 % with those of other members of the family Flavobacteriaceae. The closest relative of HN-171T was Coenonia anatina LMG 14382T (90.2 %). On the basis of their phenotypic and phylogenetic properties, the three isolates represent a novel genus and a novel species, for which the name Zhouia amylolytica gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is HN-171T (=CGMCC 1.6114T=JCM 14016T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.64587-0