%0 Journal Article %A Seo, Hyun-Seok %A Yang, Sung-Hyun %A Oh, Ji Hye %A Lee, Jung-Hyun %A Kwon, Kae Kyoung %T Pseudomaricurvus alcaniphilus sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from tidal flat sediment and emended descriptions of the genus Pseudomaricurvus, Pseudomaricurvus alkylphenolicusIwaki et al. 2014 and Maricurvus nonylphenolicusIwaki et al. 2012 %D 2015 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 65 %N Pt_10 %P 3591-3596 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.000463 %I Microbiology Society, %X A novel Gram-reaction-negative, rod-shaped, aerobic and motile strain, designated MEBiC06469T, was isolated from tidal flat sediment of the Taean province, South Korea. Strain MEBiC06469T produced ivory-coloured colonies on marine agar 2216 medium and could degrade carboxymethyl-cellulose. On the basis of 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity, the closest relative was Pseudomaricurvus alkylphenolicus KU41GT with 96.5 % similarity. The isolate was catalase-positive but oxidase-negative. Growth was observed at 16–38 °C (optimum, 32 °C), at pH 6.0–9.0 (optimum, pH 7.5) and in the presence of 0.0–8.0 % (w/v) NaCl (optimum, 1.5 %). The only isoprenoid quinone was Q-8.The dominant fatty acids were summed feature 3 (comprised of C15 : 0 2-OH and/or C16 : 1ω7c; 20.4 %) and C17 : 1ω8c (30.9 %), summed feature 8 (comprised of C18 : 1ω7c and/or C18 : 1ω6c; 9.5 %), C16 : 0 (9.0 %), C15 : 1ω8c (5.3 %), and C11 : 0 3-OH (5.2 %). Based on these phenotypic properties and phylogenetic data, strain MEBiC06469T should be classified as a novel species within the genus Pseudomaricurvus for which the name Pseudomaricurvus alcaniphilus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is MEBiC06469T ( = KCCM 42976T = JCM 18313T). Emended descriptions of the genus Pseudomaricurvus, Pseudomaricurvus alkylphenolicus Iwaki et al. 2014 , and Maricurvus nonylphenolicus Iwaki et al. 2012 are also provided. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.000463