%0 Journal Article %A Schellenberg, Johannes %A Busse, Hans-Jürgen %A Hardt, Martin %A Schubert, Patrick %A Wilke, Thomas %A Kämpfer, Peter %A Glaeser, Stefanie P. %T Proposal of Litorimonas haliclonae sp. nov., isolated from a marine sponge of the genus Haliclona %D 2018 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 68 %N 3 %P 835-843 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002592 %K sponge %K Litorimonas %K marine microbe %I Microbiology Society, %X A bright-orange-pigmented, Gram-stain-negative, motile, and rod-shaped bacterium, strain MAA42T, was isolated from a marine sponge of the genus Haliclona, which is in long-time culture in a marine aquarium system at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. The strain grew at 4–34 °C (optimum 28 °C), in the presence of 0.5–9.5 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum 3.5 %) and at pH 4.5–10.0 (optimum pH 7.5). Strain MAA42T shared the highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity (98.1 %) with the type strain of Litorimonas taeanensis. Sequence similarities to all other closely related type strains were below 97 %. DNA–DNA hybridization of strain MAA42T with L. taeanensis DSM 22008T resulted in values of 4.7 % (reciprocal 17.7 %). Major cellular fatty acids of strain MAA42T were C18 : 1ω7c (66.2 %), C18 : 1 2-OH (17.4 %), and C18 : 0 (14.1 %). Spermidine was predominant in the polyamine pattern, and ubiquinone Q-10 was the major respiratory quinone. The polar lipid profile contained the major compounds phosphatidylglycerol, monoglycosyldiglyceride, three unidentified phospholipids, and one unidentified glycolipid. Glucuronopyranosyldiglyceride was present as a minor compound. The diagnostic diamino acid of the peptidoglycan was meso-diaminopimelic acid. The genomic DNA G+C content was 52.8 mol%. Based on the genotypic, chemotaxonomic, and phenotypic analyses, strain MAA42T represents a novel species of the genus Litorimonas , for which the name Litorimonas haliclonae is proposed. The type strain is MAA42T (=CCM 8709T=CIP 111178T=LMG 29765T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002592