Oceanospirillum sanctuarii sp. nov., isolated from a sediment sample Sidhu, Chandni and Thakur, Suresh and Sharma, Gunjan and Tanuku, Naga Radha Srinivas and Pinnaka, Anil Kumar,, 67, 3428-3434 (2017), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002132, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A novel Gram-staining-negative, spiral-shaped, pale-yellow, non-sporulating, motile, aerobic bacterium, designated strain AK56T, was isolated from a sediment sample collected at the Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary, India. Colonies on marine agar were circular, pale yellow, shiny, translucent, 1–2 mm in diameter, convex and had an entire margin. The major fatty acids included C16 : 1, C16 : 1 ω7 c/C16 : 1ω6c and C18 : 1ω7c. Polar lipids included diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, two unidentified aminolipids, one unidentified phospholipid and five unidentified lipids. DNA–DNA hybridization between strain AK56T and Oceanospirillum linum LMG 5214T and ‘ Oceanospirillum nioense ’ NIO-S6 showed relatedness values of 39.91 and 23.62 %, respectively. The DNA G+C content of strain AK56T was found to be 50.3 mol%. A sequence similarity search for the 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed that O. linum and O. nioense were the nearest phylogenetic neighbours, with a pair-wise sequence similarity of 98.9 and 98.2 %, respectively. Phylogenetic analysis also showed the formation of a cluster including strain AK56T with close relative O. linum and O. nioense . Based on the observed phenotypic, chemotaxonomic characteristics and phylogenetic analysis, strain AK56T is described in this study as a novel species in the genus Oceanospirillum , for which the name Oceanospirillum sanctuarii sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Oceanospirillum sanctuarii is AK56T (=MTCC 12005T=JCM 19193T=KCTC 52973T)., language=, type=