RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Wiese, Jutta A1 Saha, Mahasweta A1 Wenzel-Storjohann, Arlette A1 Weinberger, Florian A1 Schmaljohann, Rolf A1 Imhoff, Johannes F.YR 2018 T1 Vicingus serpentipes gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the Flavobacteriales from the North Sea JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 68 IS 1 SP 333 OP 340 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002509 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A new member of the Flavobacteriales was isolated from the surface of a stone collected on the German North Sea shore. The bacterium, strain ANORD5T, is a mesophilic, chemoheterotrophic aerobic, typical marine bacterium. Optimal growth was observed at 20–30 °C, pH 7.0–8.5 and 1–2 % sea salt. The 16S rRNA gene sequence revealed a distant relationship with the representatives of the Cryomorphaceae , with less than 90 % sequence similarity. Strain ANORD5T forms a cluster together with Owenweeksia hongkongensis UST20020801T (89.9 %), Cryomorpha ignava 1-22T (87.9 %), Luteibaculum oceani CC-AMWY-103BT (88.1 %) and Phaeocystidibacter luteus PG2S01T (87.3 %). Strain ANORD5T has a low DNA G+C content (31 mol%). Based on morphological, physiological and phylogenetic data, strain ANORD5T is considered a type strain of a new species and a new genus of the family Cryomorphaceae for which the name Vicingus serpentipes is proposed. The type strain is ANORD5T (=NCIMB 15042T=DSM 103558T=MTCC 12686T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002509