Halioglobus japonicus gen. nov., sp. nov. and Halioglobus pacificus sp. nov., members of the class Gammaproteobacteria isolated from seawater Park, Sanghwa and Yoshizawa, Susumu and Inomata, Kentaro and Kogure, Kazuhiro and Yokota, Akira,, 62, 1784-1789 (2012), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.031443-0, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= Two coccoid, non-motile bacteria were isolated from seawater in the north-western Pacific Ocean near Japan. The two strains, designated S1-36T and S1-72T, were Gram-negative, obligately aerobic, heterotrophic and catalase-negative. They were able to reduce nitrate to nitrogen. Both strains required NaCl for growth, with optimum growth in 2 % NaCl, and grew at 15–30 °C, with optimum growth at 20–25 °C. Genomic DNA G+C contents of strains S1-36T and S1-72T were 59.6 and 59.4 mol%, respectively. The predominant isoprenoid quinone was Q-8 and major cellular fatty acids were C16 : 1ω7c, C18 : 1ω7c and C17 : 1ω8c. Analyses of 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strains S1-36T and S1-72T were related to each other (96.1 % sequence similarity) and both strains showed 92.3–94.7 % sequence similarity with members of the genus Haliea . On the basis of phenotypic and phylogenetic features, strains S1-36T and S1-72T should be classified as representatives of two novel species in a new genus, Halioglobus gen. nov., within the class Gammaproteobacteria . The names proposed are Halioglobus japonicus sp. nov., the type species of the genus, with S1-36T ( = NBRC 107739T = KCTC 23429T) as type strain, and Halioglobus pacificus sp. nov., with S1-72T ( = NBRC 107742T = KCTC 23430T) as type strain. , language=, type=