%0 Journal Article %A Albuquerque, Luciana %A Tiago, Igor %A Rainey, Fred A. %A Taborda, Marco %A Nobre, M. Fernanda %A Veríssimo, António %A da Costa, Milton S. %T Salirhabdus euzebyi gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-positive, halotolerant bacterium isolated from a sea salt evaporation pond %D 2007 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 57 %N 7 %P 1566-1571 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64999-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A low-G+C, Gram-positive bacterium, designated CVS-14T, was recovered from a sea salt evaporation pond on the island of Sal in the Cape Verde Archipelago. This organism was catalase- and oxidase-positive. Cells were motile, spore-forming aerobic rods, with an optimum growth temperature of about 35–40 °C and optimum pH between 7.0 and 8.5. Optimal growth occurred in media containing 4–6 % (w/v) NaCl, although the organism was able to grow in medium without added NaCl and in medium containing 16 % NaCl. The cell-wall peptidoglycan was of A1γ type and the major respiratory quinone was menaquinone 7 (MK-7). Major fatty acids were iso-15 : 0, anteiso-15 : 0, iso-17 : 0 and anteiso-17 : 0. The DNA G+C content was 37.0 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence indicated that strain CVS-14T formed a distinct new branch within the radiation of the moderately halophilic bacilli group, forming a separate lineage from species of the genera Salinibacillus, Paucisalibacillus, Oceanobacillus, Lentibacillus and Virgibacillus. Strain CVS-14T showed 16S rRNA gene pairwise similarity values of ~95 % with species of the genus Salinibacillus. On the basis of morphological, physiological, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic characteristics, strain CVS-14T is considered to represent a novel species in a new genus, for which the name Salirhabdus euzebyi gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is CVS-14T (=LMG 22839T=CIP 108577T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.64999-0