RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Campbell, Sonia A1 Harada, Renee M. A1 Li, Qing X.YR 2007 T1 Ferrimonas senticii sp. nov., a novel gammaproteobacterium isolated from the mucus of a puffer fish caught in Kaneohe Bay, Hawai'i JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 57 IS 11 SP 2670 OP 2673 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65074-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A novel species, strain P2S11T, was isolated from the mucus of a puffer fish caught off the coast of Kaneohe Bay, O'ahu, Hawai'i. A phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that the novel strain was most closely related to Ferrimonas marina DSM 16917T and Ferrimonas balearica DSM 9799T with 93.5 % and 82.9 % sequence similarities, respectively, which established the novel strain as belonging to the genus Ferrimonas. The strain formed off-white coloured colonies on marine agar and cells were Gram-negative, non-motile rods. H2S was produced when strain P2S11T was grown on TSI medium with added salt. Strain P2S11T had a DNA G+C content of 54.9 mol% and the dominant fatty acids were C16 : 1 ω9c, C16 : 0 and C17 : 1 ω8c. On the basis of this polyphasic study, strain P2S11T (=ATCC BAA-1480T=DSM 18821T) represents a novel species of the genus Ferrimonas, for which the name Ferrimonas senticii sp. nov. is proposed., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65074-0