RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Park, Sooyeon A1 Choi, Jeehyun A1 Choi, Su Jung A1 Yoon, Jung-HoonYR 2018 T1 Flavobacterium sediminilitoris sp. nov., isolated from a tidal flat JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 68 IS 2 SP 630 OP 635 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002555 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A Gram-stain-negative, facultatively aerobic, motile-by-gliding, non-flagellated and rod-shaped bacterial strain, designated YSM-43T, was isolated from a tidal flat in Yeosu on the South Sea in the Republic of Korea. Strain YSM-43T grew optimally at 30 °C and in the presence of 1.0–2.0 % (w/v) NaCl. A neighbour-joining phylogenetic tree based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain YSM-43T fell within the clade comprising type strains of Flavobacterium species, clustering with the type strains of Flavobacterium jejuense and Flavobacterium jumunjinense . It exhibited 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity values of 97.20 and 97.15 % to the type strains of F. jejuense and F. jumunjinense , respectively, and of less than 96.59 % to the type strains of the other Flavobacterium species. Strain YSM-43T contained menaquinone-6 as the predominant menaquinone and iso-C15 : 0, iso-C17 : 0 3-OH, iso-C15 : 1 G and iso-C15 : 0 3-OH as the major fatty acids. The major polar lipids were phosphatidylethanolamine and one unidentified lipid. The DNA G+C content of strain YSM-43T was 29.8 mol% and its DNA–DNA relatedness values with type strains of F. jejuense and F. jumunjinense were 13 and 11 %, respectively. The differential phenotypic properties, together with the phylogenetic and genetic data, revealed that strain YSM-43T is separate from other recognized species of the genus Flavobacterium . On the basis of the data presented, strain YSM-43T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Flavobacterium , for which the name Flavobacterium sediminilitoris sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is YSM-43T (=KACC 19435T=KCTC 62142T=NBRC 113020T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.002555