RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Jung, Yong-Taek A1 Park, Sooyeon A1 Oh, Tae-Kwang A1 Yoon, Jung-HoonYR 2012 T1 Erythrobacter marinus sp. nov., isolated from seawater JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 62 IS Pt_9 SP 2050 OP 2055 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.034702-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A Gram-negative, non-motile, ovoid to rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain HWDM-33T, was isolated from seawater of the Yellow Sea, Korea, and was subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic study. Strain HWDM-33T grew optimally at pH 7–8, at 25 °C and in the presence of 2–3 % (w/v) NaCl. Neighbour-joining, maximum-likelihood and maximum-parsimony phylogenetic trees based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain HWDM-33T clustered with Erythrobacter gangjinensis K7-2T, with which it shared 96.9 % sequence similarity. Strain HWDM-33T exhibited 94.2–95.8 % 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity to the type strains of other recognized species of the genus Erythrobacter . Strain HWDM-33T contained Q-10 as the predominant ubiquinone and C18 : 1ω7c, C17 : 1ω6c, and C16 : 1ω7c and/or iso-C15 : 0 2-OH as the major fatty acids. The major polar lipids were sphingoglycolipid, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine and an unidentified lipid. The DNA G+C content of strain HWDM-33T was 66.1 mol%. Differential phenotypic properties and phylogenetic distinctiveness demonstrated that strain HWDM-33T was separate from E. gangjinensis and other recognized species of the genus Erythrobacter . On the basis of the data presented here, strain HWDM-33T represents a novel species of the genus Erythrobacter , for which the name Erythrobacter marinus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is HWDM-33T ( = KCTC 23554T  = CCUG 60528T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.034702-0