%0 Journal Article %A Kim, Young-Ok %A Park, Sooyeon %A Kim, Doo Nam %A Nam, Bo-Hye %A Won, Sung-Min %A An, Du Hae %A Yoon, Jung-Hoon %T Amphritea ceti sp. nov., isolated from faeces of Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) %D 2014 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 64 %N Pt_12 %P 4068-4072 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.067405-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-spore-forming, non-flagellated and rod-shaped or ovoid bacterial strain, designated RA1T, was isolated from faeces collected from Beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) in Yeosu aquarium, South Korea. Strain RA1T grew optimally at 25 °C, at pH 7.0–8.0 and in the presence of 2.0 % (w/v) NaCl. Neighbour-joining, maximum-likelihood and maximum-parsimony phylogenetic trees based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain RA1T joins the cluster comprising the type strains of three species of the genus Amphritea , with which it exhibited 95.8–96.0 % sequence similarity. Sequence similarities to the type strains of other recognized species were less than 94.3 %. Strain RA1T contained Q-8 as the predominant ubiquinone and summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c), C18 : 1ω7c and C16 : 0 as the major fatty acids. The major polar lipids of strain RA1T were phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, two unidentified lipids and one unidentified aminolipid. The DNA G+C content of strain RA1T was 47.4 mol%. The differential phenotypic properties, together with the phylogenetic distinctiveness, revealed that strain RA1T is separated from other species of the genus Amphritea . On the basis of the data presented, strain RA1T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Amphritea , for which the name Amphritea ceti sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is RA1T ( = KCTC 42154T = NBRC 110551T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.067405-0