Pontibacter brevis sp. nov., isolated from rhizosphere soil of Tamarix ramosissima Osman, Ghenijan and Gao, Yan and Wang, Ning and Mahmud, Otkur and Sun, Jian and Zhang, Tao and Zhan, Faqiang and Zhang, Zhidong and Lou, Kai,, 68, 81-86 (2018), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002455, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A Gram-stain-negative, oval-shaped and light pink pigmented bacterium, designated XAAS-2T, was isolated from rhizosphere soil of Tamarix ramosissima. The sole respiratory quinone of the type strain XAAS-2T was MK-7, and the principal cellular fatty acids were summed feature 4 (iso-C17 : 1 I and/or anteiso-C17 : 1 B) and iso-C15 : 0. The major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine and two unidentified lipids. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that strain XAAS-2T belonged to the genus Pontibacter within the family Cytophagaceae with sequence similarities of 93.9–97.1 % to other type species of the genus Pontibacter and to Pontibacter xinjiangensis CCTCC AB 207200T as the closest neighbour. The DNA G+C content of strain XAAS-2T was 50.6 mol%. The level of DNA–DNA relatedness of XAAS-2T and P. xinjiangensis CCTCC AB 207200T was 47.5 % (sd=3.27). Phenotypic and genotypic data suggested that strain XAAS-2T represents a novel species of the genus Pontibacter , for which the name Pontibacter brevis sp. nov. is proposed, with the type strain XAAS-2T (=CCTCC AB 2016135T=JCM 31443T)., language=, type=