%0 Journal Article %A Song, Lei %A Liu, Hongcan %A Wang, Jian %A Huang, Ying %A Dai, Xin %A Han, Xiqiu %A Zhou, Yuguang %T Bacillus oceani sp. nov., isolated from seawater %D 2016 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 66 %N 2 %P 796-800 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000793 %I Microbiology Society, %X Two Gram-staining-positive, endospore-forming, rod-shaped bacterial strains, designated strain SW109T and strain W006, were isolated from a seawater sample collected from the Indian Ocean. The strains were strictly aerobic, catalase- and oxidase-positive and motile by peritrichous flagella. The predominant cellular fatty acids (>10 %) were anteiso-C15 : 0, iso-C15 : 0 and iso-C14 : 0. The major menaquinone was menaquinone-7 (MK-7) and the major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylethanolamine. The genomic DNA G+C content of strain SW109T and strain W006 was 46.3 and 46.1 mol%, respectively. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that the two strains represented a novel member of the genus Bacillus, showing the highest similarity with Bacillus halodurans LMG 7121T and Bacillus okuhidensis DSM 13666T (96.4 and 96.2 % sequence similarity, respectively). On the basis of phylogenetic inference and phenotypic characteristics, it is proposed that the two strains represent a novel species of the genus Bacillus, for which the name Bacillus oceani sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is SW109T ( = CGMCC 1.12347T = DSM 100579T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.000793