%0 Journal Article %A Park, Ja-Min %A Park, Sooyeon %A Jung, Yong-Taek %A Kim, Hyangmi %A Lee, Jung-Sook %A Yoon, Jung-Hoon %T Sphingorhabdusarenilitoris sp. nov., isolated from a coastal sand, and reclassification of Sphingopyxis rigui as Sphingorhabdusrigui comb. nov. and Sphingopyxis wooponensis as Sphingorhabduswooponensis comb. nov. %D 2014 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 64 %N Pt_8 %P 2551-2557 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.064378-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-stain-negative, strictly aerobic, non-flagellated and rod-shaped bacterial strain, designated GJR-7T, was isolated from coastal sand of the South Sea of South Korea. Strain GJR-7T grew optimally at 30 °C, at pH 7.0–7.5 and without NaCl. Phylogenetic trees based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain GJR-7T clustered with the type strains of Sphingopyxis wooponensis , Sphingopyxis rigui and Sphingorhabdus planktonica , with which it exhibited 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity values of 96.0–96.3 %. Sequence similarities to the type strains of other recognized species were less than 95.5 %. Strain GJR-7T contained Q-10 as the predominant ubiquinone and C18 : 1ω7c, 11-methyl C18 : 1ω7c and summed feature 3 (C16 : 1ω7c and/or C16 : 1ω6c) or C14 : 0 2-OH. The major polar lipids were sphingoglycolipid, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylglycerol, diphosphatidylglycerol and one unidentified glycolipid. The DNA G+C content of strain GJR-7T was 55.5 mol%. Differential phenotypic properties, together with phylogenetic distinctiveness, revealed that strain GJR-7T is separated from the type strains of Sphingopyxis wooponensis , Sphingopyxis rigui and Sphingorhabdus planktonica . On the basis of the data presented, strain GJR-7T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Sphingorhabdus , for which the name Sphingorhabdus arenilitoris sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is GJR-7T ( = KCTC 42051T = CECT 8531T). It is also proposed that Sphingopyxis wooponensis and Sphingopyxis rigui should be reclassified as members of the genus Sphingorhabdus . %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.064378-0