Sulfitobacter aestuarii sp. nov., a marine bacterium isolated from a tidal flat of the Yellow Sea Park, A-Young and Teeravet, Siritorn and Pheng, Sophea and Lee, Jong Rok and Kim, Song-Gun and Suwannachart, Chatrudee,, 68, 1771-1775 (2018), doi = https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002747, publicationName = Microbiology Society, issn = 1466-5026, abstract= A novel bacterial strain, designated hydD52T, was isolated from a sample of tidal flat sediment of the Yellow Sea in the Republic of Korea. The cells were motile, rod-shaped and Gram-stain-negative. Phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain hydD52T was a member of the genus Sulfitobacter and most closely related to Sulfitobacter dubius DSM 16472T (98.0 %), Sulfitobacter indolifex HEL-45T (97.8 %) and Sulfitobacter delicatus DSM 28223T (97.6 %). The major fatty acids (>5 %) of hydD52T were C18 : 1 ω7c/C18 : 1 ω6c, C16 : 0, C18 : 1ω7c 11-methyl and C19 : 0 ω8c. The respiratory quinone of strain hydD52T was ubiquinone-10. The major polar lipids were diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine and an unidentified amino lipid. The G+C content of this strain was 64.0 mol%. The DNA–DNA relatedness values of hydD52T with the type strains of S. dubius , S. indolifex and S. delicatus were 18.8, 13.1 and 15.7 %, respectively. Based on the results of morphological, physiological and chemotaxonomic characterization, DNA–DNA hybridization relatedness, and 16S rRNA genes analysis, we concluded that strain hydD52T represents a novel species, for which the name Sulfitobacter aestuarii sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is hydD52T (=KCTC 32982T=TISTR 2562T)., language=, type=