RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Park, Sooyeon A1 Lee, Ken-Chul A1 Bae, Kyung Sook A1 Yoon, Jung-HoonYR 2014 T1 Vitellibacter soesokkakensis sp. nov., isolated from the junction between the ocean and a freshwater spring and emended description of the genus Vitellibacter JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 64 IS Pt_2 SP 588 OP 593 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.056713-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A Gram-stain-negative, aerobic, non-spore-forming, non-flagellated, motile by gliding and rod-shaped bacterial strain, RSSK-12T, was isolated from the zone where the ocean and a freshwater spring meet at Jeju island, South Korea. Strain RSSK-12T grew optimally at 30 °C, at pH 7.0–8.0 and in the presence of 2.0–3.0 % (w/v) NaCl. Neighbour-joining, maximum-likelihood and maximum-parsimony phylogenetic trees based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain RSSK-12T clustered with the type strains of two Vitellibacter species, with which it exhibited 94.8–96.9 % sequence similarity. Sequence similarities to the type strains of species of the genus Aequorivita and of other recognized species were 94.7–95.5 % and less than 91.9 %, respectively. Strain RSSK-12T contained MK-6 as the predominant menaquinone and iso-C15 : 0 and iso-C17 : 0 3-OH as the major fatty acids. The major polar lipids of strain RSSK-12T were phosphatidylethanolamine and one unidentified lipid. The DNA G+C content of strain RSSK-12T was 38.9 mol%. Differential phenotypic properties, together with phylogenetic distinctiveness, revealed that strain RSSK-12T is separate from other Vitellibacter species. On the basis of the data presented, strain RSSK-12T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Vitellibacter , for which the name Vitellibacter soesokkakensis sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is RSSK-12T ( = KCTC 32536T = CECT 8398T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.056713-0