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Two Gram-positive, rod-shaped, endospore-forming bacteria (strains CR-119 and CR-95) were isolated from brackish sediments in the mouth of the river Vélez in Málaga, southern Spain, and subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic study. Phenotypic tests showed that these strains were related to other species at a similarity level of less than 87·6 %. Both strains are halotolerant, aerobic, chemoheterotrophic, motile with peritrichous flagella and biosurfactant producers. Their endospores are oval, subterminal and non-deforming structures. The predominant menaquinone in both strains is MK-7. The fatty-acid profiles of both strains contain large quantities of branched and saturated fatty acids. The major fatty acids (%) are 15 : 0 anteiso (32·4), 15 : 0 iso (16·8), 17 : 0 iso (13·4), 16 : 0 (11·5) and 17 : 0 anteiso (10·2) in strain CR-119 and 15 : 0 anteiso (37·5), 17 : 0 iso (16·0) and 17 : 0 anteiso (15·8) in strain CR-95. The G+C contents of strains CR-119 and CR-95 are 41·0 and 42·5 mol%, respectively. RAPD analysis confirmed the low degree of similarity between the two strains and also amongst other species. 16S rRNA gene analysis of strain CR-119 showed the highest sequence similarity to be 97·4 %, with and subsp. . In the case of strain CR-95, the maximum similarity value was 99·5 %, with . DNA–DNA hybridization of strains CR-119 and CR-95 with the above species produced values lower than 46·9 %. Therefore, on the basis of phenotypic characteristics, phylogenetic data and genomic distinctiveness, we conclude that these strains merit classification as novel species, for which we propose the names sp. nov. (type strain CR-119=CECT 5688=LMG 22476) and sp. nov. (type strain CR-95=CECT 5687=LMG 22477).

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