RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Park, Sooyeon A1 Choi, Jeehyun A1 Choi, Su Jung A1 Yoon, Jung-HoonYR 2018 T1 Pseudobizionia ponticola gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from seawater JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 68 IS 5 SP 1467 OP 1473 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002691 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-motile and ovoid or rod-shaped bacterial strain, designated MM-14T, was isolated from seawater sampled from the Yellow Sea in the Republic of Korea and its taxonomic position was investigated using a polyphasic approach. Strain MM-14T grew optimally at 30 °C and in the presence of approximately 2.0 % (w/v) NaCl. Phylogenetic trees based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain MM-14T clustered with the type strain of Hanstruepera neustonica . The novel strain exhibited a 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity value of 96.06 % to the type strain of H. neustonica , but higher 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity values (96.13–96.69 %) to the type strains of Bizionia echini , Bizionia hallyeonensis and Bizionia psychrotolerans . Strain MM-14T contained MK-6 as the predominant menaquinone and iso-C15 : 0, iso-C15 : 1 G and iso-C17 : 0 3-OH as the major fatty acids. The major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, one unidentified lipid and one unidentified aminolipid. The DNA G+C content of strain MM-14T was 34.6 mol%. The phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic data and other phenotypic properties revealed that strain MM-14T constitutes a new genus and species within the family Flavobacteriaceae of the phylum Bacteroidetes , for which the name Pseudobizionia ponticola gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Pseudobizionia ponticola is MM-14T (=KACC 19434T=KCTC 62139T=NBRC 113019T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002691