Taeaniamaliponensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a member of the family Flavobacteriaceae isolated from seawater Jung, Yong-Taek and Yoon, Sun Young and Lee, Jung-Sook and Yoon, Jung-Hoon,, 66, 3552-3557 (2016), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001232, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A Gram-strain-negative, rod-shaped, non-motile bacterial strain, designated MM-8T, was isolated from seawater in the Korean peninsula. Strain MM-8T was found to grow optimally at pH 7.0–8.0, at 30 °C and in the presence of 2 % (w/v) NaCl. A neighbour-joining phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain MM-8T falls within the clade comprising members of the genera Actibacter , Lutimonas and Namhaeicolain the family Flavobacteriaceae . Strain MM-8T exhibited 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity values of 94.4–96.9 % with respect to the type strains of members of the genera Actibacter , Lutimonas and Namhaeicola . Strain MM-8T was found to contain MK-6 (90.0 %) and MK-7 (10.0 %) as the predominant menaquinones and iso-C15 : 0 (32.4 % ), iso-C15 : 1 G (11.4 %) and iso-C15 : 0 3-OH (10.1 %) as the major fatty acids. The major polar lipids were identified as phosphatidylethanolamine and an unidentified lipid. The DNA G+C content of strain MM-8T was determined to be 40.7 mol%. Differential phenotypic properties, together with the phylogenetic distinctiveness, demonstrate that strain MM-8T is distinguishable from the type strains of type species of the genera Actibacter , Lutimonas and Namhaeicola . On the basis of the data presented, strain MM-8T is considered to represent a novel genus and species, for which the name Taeania maliponensis gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is MM-8T (=KCTC 52209T=NBRC 112238T)., language=, type=