RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Kang, Heeyoung A1 Kim, Haneul A1 Joung, Yochan A1 Joh, KiseongYR 2017 T1 Polaribacter lacunae sp. nov., isolated from a lagoon JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 67 IS 3 SP 681 OP 686 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001694 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB An aerobic, Gram-stain-negative, rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain HMF2268T, was isolated from a lagoon in the Republic of Korea. Comparative 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain HMF2268T belonged to the genus Polaribacter and was most closely related to Polaribacter huanghezhanensis SM1202T (96.8 % similarity). Cellular fatty acids were dominated by iso-C15 : 0, iso-C15 : 0 3-OH, anteiso-C15 : 0 and iso-C15 : 1 G. The predominant respiratory quinone was menaquinone-6 (MK-6). The major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine, three unidentified aminolipids and two unidentified polar lipids. The DNA G+C content was 34.3 mol%. Based on the polyphasic taxonomic analyses, it is concluded that strain HMF2268T represents a novel species of the genus Polaribacter , for which the name Polaribacter lacunae sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is HMF2268T (=KCTC 42191T=CECT 8862T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001694