Soortia roseihalophila gen. nov., sp. nov., a new taxon in the order Balneolales isolated from a travertine spring, and description of Soortiaceae fam. nov. Amoozegar, Mohammad Ali and Khansha, Javad and Mehrshad, Maliheh and Shahzadeh Fazeli, Seyed Abolhassan and Ramezani, Mohaddaseh and de la Haba, Rafael R. and Sánchez-Porro, Cristina and Ventosa, Antonio,, 67, 113-120 (2017), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001583, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A novel Gram-stain-negative, slightly halophilic, motile, curved rod with a horseshoe shape, designated strain Bsw-2bT, was isolated from Badab-Soort travertine spring in Iran. Phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that strain Bsw-2bT belongs to the order Balneolales , showing 84.6 % sequence similarity to Gracilimonas tropica DSM 19535T and 84.4 % and 83.9 % sequence similarity to Gracilimonas rosea CL-KR2T and Balneola vulgaris DSM 17893T, respectively. In addition, phenotypic and physiological features could clearly differentiate strain Bsw-2bT from species of the most closely related genera, Gracilimonas , Balneola , Aliifodinibius and Fodinibius . The strain was able to grow with 1–3 % (w/v) (optimum at 2 %) NaCl, at temperatures of 28–34 °C (optimum at 30 °C) and between pH 6.0 and 8.0 (optimum at pH 7.0). The major cellular fatty acids of strain Bsw-2bT were iso-C15 : 0, iso-C13 : 0 and iso-C14 : 0. The polar lipid profile of strain Bsw-2bT was composed predominantly of phosphatidylethanolamine, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, an unknown glycolipid and four unknown phospholipids. The DNA G+C content was 40.5 mol%. Based on the evidence from the polyphasic study, strain Bsw-2bT represents a novel species in a novel genus within a new family, for which the name Soortia roseihalophila gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed, within the new family Soortiaceae fam. nov. The type strain is strain Bsw-2bT (=IBRC-M 10915T=LMG 28547T)., language=, type=