RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Young, Chiu-Chung A1 Kämpfer, Peter A1 Ho, Mann-Jing A1 Busse, Hans-Jürgen A1 Huber, Birgit E. A1 Arun, A. B. A1 Shen, Fo-Ting A1 Lai, Wei-An A1 Rekha, P. D.YR 2007 T1 Arenimonas malthae sp. nov., a gammaproteobacterium isolated from an oil-contaminated site JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 57 IS 12 SP 2790 OP 2793 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.64975-0 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB A Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium (CC-JY-1T) was isolated on nutrient agar from a soil sample collected from an oil-contaminated site located in Chyai county, Taiwan. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis demonstrated that this isolate is unique, showing 96.7 % sequence similarity to the type strain of Arenimonas donghaensis and similarities of 93.0–93.8 % to species of the genera Thermomonas, Lysobacter and Silanimonas. The presence of ubiquinone Q-8, a polar lipid profile consisting of the major compounds diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylethanolamine and the fatty acid profile were in accordance with the phylogenetic affiliation of CC-JY-1T. DNA–DNA reassociation experiments between CC-JY-1T and A. donghaensis KACC 11381T resulted in a mean relatedness value of 32 %, indicating that strain CC-JY1T represents a novel species in the genus Arenimonas, for which we propose the name Arenimonas malthae sp. nov. The type strain is CC-JY-1T (=CCUG 53596T =CIP 109310T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.64975-0