RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Dastager, Syed G. A1 Mawlankar, Rahul A1 Sonalkar, Vidya V. A1 Thorat, Meghana N. A1 Mual, Poonam A1 Verma, Ashish A1 Krishnamurthi, Srinivasan A1 Tang, Shan-Kun A1 Li, Wen-JunYR 2015 T1 Exiguobacterium enclense sp. nov., isolated from sediment JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 65 IS Pt_5 SP 1611 OP 1616 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.000149 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A Gram-stain-positive bacterium, designated strain NIO-1109T, was isolated from a marine sediment sample from Chorao Island, Goa, India. Phenotypic and chemotaxonomic characteristics and data from phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain NIO-1109T was related to the genus Exiguobacterium . Strain NIO-1109T exhibited >98.0 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with respect to Exiguobacterium indicum HHS 31T (99.5 %) and Exiguobacterium acetylicum NCIMB 9889T (99.1 %); the type strains of other species showed <98 % similarity. Levels of DNA–DNA relatedness between strain NIO-1109T and E. acetylicum DSM 20416T and E. indicum LMG 23471T were less than 70 % (33.0±2.0 and 37±3.2 %, respectively). Strain NIO-1109T also differed from these two closely related species in a number of phenotypic traits. Based on phenotypic, chemotaxonomic and phylogenetic data, strain NIO-1109T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Exiguobacterium , for which the name Exiguobacterium enclense sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is NIO-1109T ( = NCIM 5457T = DSM 25128T = CCTCC AB 2011124T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.000149