%0 Journal Article %A Jung, Yong-Taek %A Park, Sooyeon %A Lee, Jung-Sook %A Yoon, Jung-Hoon %T Pseudorhodobacter ponti sp. nov., isolated from seawater %D 2017 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 67 %N 6 %P 1855-1860 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001877 %K Pseudorhodobacter ponti sp. nov. %K Proteobacteria %K South Korea %K novel species %K seawater %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-negative, short-rod-shaped, non-motile bacterial strain, designated HWR-46T, was isolated from seawater of the Yellow Sea, South Korea, and was subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic study. Strain HWR-46T grew optimally at pH 7.0–8.0, at 20–25 °C and in the presence of 2–3 % (w/v) NaCl. The neighbour-joining phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain HWR-46T fell within the clade comprising Pseudorhodobacter species, clustering with the type strain of Pseudorhodobacter aquimaris , with which it exhibited 98.4 % sequence similarity. 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity between strain HWR-46T and the type strains of other Pseudorhodobacter species was 95.1–96.3 %. The DNA G+C content of strain HWR-46T was 63.1 mol% and its mean DNA–DNA relatedness value with P. aquimaris HDW-19T was 24.6±1.5 %. Strain HWR-46T contained only Q-10 as the ubiquinone and summed feature 8 (C18 : 1ω7c and/or C18 : 1ω6c) as the major fatty acid. The major polar lipids were phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylglycerol, an unidentified aminolipid and an unidentified aminophospholipid. Differential phenotypic properties, together with phylogenetic distinctiveness, demonstrated that strain HWR-46T is distinguishable from other Pseudorhodobacter species. On the basis of the data presented, strain HWR-46T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Pseudorhodobacter , for which the name Pseudorhodobacter ponti sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is HWR-46T (=KCTC 52470T=NBRC 112426T). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001877