Saccharospirillum aestuarii sp. nov., isolated from tidal flat sediment, and an emended description of the genus Saccharospirillum Choi, Ahyoung and Oh, Hyun-Myung and Cho, Jang-Cheon,, 61, 487-492 (2011), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.022996-0, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A Gram-reaction-negative, chemoheterotrophic, non-motile, facultatively anaerobic, curved rod-shaped bacterial strain, IMCC4453T, was isolated from tidal flat sediment and subjected to a taxonomic study using a polyphasic approach. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain IMCC4453T belonged to the genus Saccharospirillum, forming a robust clade with members of the genus, and was most closely related to the type strains of Saccharospirillum salsuginis (97.6 % similarity) and Saccharospirillum impatiens (95.9 %). The DNA–DNA relatedness value between strain IMCC4453T and S. salsuginis YIM-Y25T was 23–30 %. Differences in several physiological and biochemical characteristics between strain IMCC4453T and the two recognized species of the genus Saccharospirillum, together with phylogenetic and genomic distinctiveness, differentiated the novel strain from members of the genus Saccharospirillum. On the basis of the data from the present study, it is concluded that strain IMCC4453T represents a novel species of the genus Saccharospirillum, for which the name Saccharospirillum aestuarii sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is IMCC4453T (=KCTC 22684T=KCCM 42930T=NBRC 105825T). An emended description of the genus Saccharospirillum is provided., language=, type=