%0 Journal Article %A VARALDO, PIETRO E. %A KILPPER-BÄLZ, RENATE %A BIAVASCO, FRANCESCA %A SATTA, GIUSEPPE %A SCHLEIFER, KARL HEINZ %T Staphylococcus delphini sp. nov., a Coagulase-Positive Species Isolated from Dolphins %D 1988 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 38 %N 4 %P 436-439 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-38-4-436 %I Microbiology Society, %X A new coagulase-positive species of the genus Staphylococcus, Staphylococcus delphini, is described on the basis of a study of two strains isolated from purulent skin lesions of dolphins. The new species is established and differentiated from the other coagulase-positive Staphylococcus species primarily on the basis of its deoxyribonucleic acid-deoxyribonucleic acid hybridization relationships, its cell wall composition, its bacteriolytic activity pattern, its penicillin-binding protein profile, its biochemical reactions, and the relatively high guanine-plus-cytosine content of its deoxyribonucleic acid. The type strain is strain Heidy (= DSM 20771). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-38-4-436