RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Divyasree, B. A1 Srinivas, A. A1 Sasikala, Ch. A1 Ramana, Ch. V.YR 2016 T1 Description of Lunatimonas salinarum sp. nov. JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 66 IS 12 SP 5223 OP 5227 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001499 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A Gram-stain-negative, crescent-shaped, non-motile, aerobic bacterium was isolated from a saltern at Nari along the Bhavnagar coast, Gujarat, India. The strain designated JC344T was oxidase- and catalase-positive. The 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis and sequence comparison data indicated that JC344T represented a member of the genus Lunatimonas and was closely related to the only species of the genus, Lunatimonas lonarensis AK24T (95.5 %). The DNA G+C content of JC344T was 43 mol%. JC344T has phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and four unidentified polar lipids. MK-7 is the only respiratory quinone. The major (>10 %) fatty acids of strain JC344T are iso-C15 : 0, anteiso-C15 : 0 and summed feature 9 (iso-C17 : 1ω9c and/or C16 : 0 10-methyl). On the basis of physiological, genotypic, phylogenetic and chemotaxonomic analyses, we conclude that JC344T represents a novel species of the genus Lunatimonas , for which the name Lunatimonas salinarum sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is JC344T (=KCTC 42988T=LMG 29259T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001499