Rhodohalobacter halophilus gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic member of the family Balneolaceae Xia, Jun and Xie, Zhi-Hong and Dunlap, Christopher A and Rooney, Alejandro P and Du, Zong-Jun,, 67, 1281-1287 (2017), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001806, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A novel Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped, facultatively anaerobic, oxidase-negative and catalase-positive bacterium, designated JZ3C29T, was isolated from a saltern located in Feicheng, PR China. JZ3C29T was tolerant of moderately saline conditions. Optimal growth occurred at 40 °C (range 20–50 °C) and pH 7.5–8.5 (range pH 7.0–9.0) with 8–10 % (w/v) NaCl (range 2–16 %). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that JZ3C29T shared highest similarity with Gracilimonas tropica CL-CB462T (90.5 %), Gracilimonas mengyeensis YIM J14T (90.5 %) and Gracilimonas rosea CL-KR2T (90.4 %) and less than 90.0 % similarity with other species of the phylum Bacteroidetes . The isolate formed a novel genus-level clade in the recently described family Balneolaceae . The polar lipid profile of the novel isolate consisted of diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, three unidentified glycolipids, four unidentified phospholipids and two unidentified lipids. The dominant cellular fatty acids (>10 %) were summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c and/or iso-C15 : 0 2-OH) and iso-C15 : 0 and the sole respiratory quinone was menaquinone 7 (MK-7). The DNA G+C content of JZ3C29T was 44.4 mol%. On the basis of these phenotypic and phylogenetic data, JZ3C29T should be classified as representing a novel genus and species within the family Balneolaceae , for which the name Rhodohalobacter halophilus gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is JZ3C29T (=MCCC 1H00131T=KCTC 52046T=JCM 31413T)., language=, type=