RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Yu, Zhiwei A1 Lai, Qiliang A1 Li, Guizhen A1 Shao, ZongzeYR 2013 T1 Parvularcula dongshanensis sp. nov., isolated from soft coral JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 63 IS Pt_6 SP 2114 OP 2117 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.044313-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A taxonomic study was carried out on strain SH25T, which was isolated from soft coral collected from Dongshan Island, China. The isolate was a heterotrophic organism to the soft coral, and was a Gram-reaction-negative, short rod that was motile by a polar flagellum. Growth was observed at salinities from 0 to 12 % and at temperatures from 10 to 41 °C. It was unable to reduce nitrate to nitrite. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strain SH25T belonged to the genus Parvularcula , with highest sequence similarity to Parvularcula lutaonensis CC-MMS-1T (96.1 %) and Parvularcula bermudensis HTCC2503T (94.3 %); 16S rRNA gene sequence similarities to other taxa were below 90.0 %. The dominant fatty acids were C16 : 0 and summed feature 8 (C18 : 1ω7c/ω6c,). The G+C content of the chromosomal DNA was 61.8 mol%. The major quinone was Q10. These combined genotypic and phenotypic data show that strain SH25T represents a novel species of the genus Parvularcula , for which the name Parvularcula dongshanensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is SH25T ( = CCTCC AB 2010355T = LMG 26158T = MCCC 1A06534T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.044313-0