%0 Journal Article %A Park, Sooyeon %A Choi, Jeehyun %A Won, Sung-Min %A Yoon, Jung-Hoon %T Thalassotalea insulae sp. nov., isolated from tidal flat sediment %D 2018 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 68 %N 4 %P 1321-1326 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002671 %K polyphasic taxonomy %K novel species %K Thalassotalea insulae %K tidal flat sediment %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, motile and rod-shaped or ovoid bacterial strain, designated JDTF-40T, was isolated from a tidal flat in Jindo, an island of the Republic of South Korea. Strain JDTF-40T grew optimally at pH 7.0–8.0, at 30 °C and in the presence of 2 % (w/v) NaCl. The neighbour-joining phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain JDTF-40T fell within the cluster comprising the type strains of Thalassotalea species. Strain JDTF-40T exhibited 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity values of 93.8–95.7 % to the type strains of Thalassotalea species. Strain JDTF-40T contained Q-8 as the predominant ubiquinone and summed feature 3 (C16 : 1 ω7c and/or C16 : 1 ω6c) and C16 : 0 as the major fatty acids. The major polar lipids of strain JDTF-40T were phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, one unidentified aminolipid, one unidentified glycolipid and three unidentified lipids. The DNA G+C content of strain JDTF-40T was 41.3 mol%. Differential phenotypic properties, together with the phylogenetic distinctiveness, demonstrated that strain JDTF-40T is distinct from recognized species of the genus Thalassotalea . On the basis of the data presented here, strain JDTF-40T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Thalassotalea , for which the name Thalassotalea insulae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is JDTF-40T (=KACC 19433T=KCTC 62186T=NBRC 113040T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002671