A brown-coloured bacterium, designated strain JA633T, was purified from a photoheterotrophic enrichment culture obtained from black sand of a lagoon. Cells of strain JA633T were coccoid–spherical, Gram-stain-negative and motile by means of polar flagella. Strain JA633T had an obligate requirement for NaCl and could tolerate up to 4 % (w/v) NaCl. Internal photosynthetic membranes were present as vesicles. Photo-organoheterotrophy was the only growth mode observed. Strain JA633T contained bacteriochlorophyll a and a major (>85 %) unidentified carotenoid of the spirilloxanthin series. Thiamine and p-aminobenzoic acid were required for growth. Major fatty acids were C18 : 1ω7c/C18 : 1ω6c, C16 : 0 and C16 : 1ω7c/C16 : 1ω6c. Diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphotidylcholine and an unknown aminophospholipid were the major polar lipids in strain JA633T. The DNA G+C content of strain JA633T was 64.5 mol%. Strain JA633T shared highest 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity with the type strains of Thiorhodococcus kakinadensis (96.9 %), Thiophaeococcus mangrovi (96.3 %) and Thiorhodococcus bheemlicus (96.2 %), which belonged to the class Gammaproteobacteria. However, phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain JA633T formed a separate clade along with Thiophaeococcus mangrovi JA304T whereas the members of the genus Thiorhodococcusremained as two distinct phylogenetic lineages. Based on morphological, physiological, chemotaxonomic and molecular evidence, strain JA633T was significantly different from the type strain of Thiophaeococcus mangrovi of the family Chromatiaceae. It is thus proposed that the strain be classified as a representative of a novel species, for which the name Thiophaeococcus fuscus sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is JA633T ( = KCTC 15337T = NBRC 109958T).
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