%0 Journal Article %A Guo, Bin %A Gu, Jun %A Ye, Yu-Guang %A Tang, Yue-Qin %A Kida, Kenji %A Wu, Xiao-Lei %T Marinobacter segnicrescens sp. nov., a moderate halophile isolated from benthic sediment of the South China Sea %D 2007 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 57 %N 9 %P 1970-1974 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65030-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X A Gram-negative, motile, non-spore-forming and moderately halophilic ellipsoid-shaped marine coccobacillus, designated strain SS011B1-4T, was isolated from benthic sediment of the South China Sea. Optimum growth occurred at 30–37 °C, pH 7.5–8.0 and 4–8 % (w/v) NaCl. Strain SS011B1-4T utilized a variety of organic substrates as sole carbon sources, but did not utilize toluene, n-tetradecane or crude oil. Strain SS011B1-4T had ubiquinone-9 as the major respiratory quinone and C18 : 1 ω9c, C16 : 0 and C12 : 0 3-OH as the predominant fatty acids. The genomic DNA G+C content was 62.2 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences showed that strain SS011B1-4T belonged to the genus Marinobacter of the Gammaproteobacteria. The results of the phenotypic, phylogenetic and genomic analyses revealed that strain SS011B1-4T represents a novel species of the genus Marinobacter. The name Marinobacter segnicrescens sp. nov. is therefore proposed, with strain SS011B1-4T (=LMG 23928T=CGMCC 1.6489T) as the type strain. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65030-0