%0 Journal Article %A Vandecandelaere, Ilse %A Segaert, Eveline %A Mollica, Alfonso %A Faimali, Marco %A Vandamme, Peter %T Leisingera aquimarina sp. nov., isolated from a marine electroactive biofilm, and emended descriptions of Leisingera methylohalidivorans Schaefer et al. 2002, Phaeobacter daeponensis Yoon et al. 2007 and Phaeobacter inhibens Martens et al. 2006 %D 2008 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 58 %N 12 %P 2788-2793 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijs.0.65844-0 %I Microbiology Society, %X Strain LMG 24366T was isolated from a marine electroactive biofilm grown on a stainless steel cathode (Genova, Italy) and was investigated by using a polyphasic taxonomic approach. This study demonstrated that strain LMG 24366T represents a novel species within the genus Leisingera, which shared 98.9 % 16S rRNA gene similarity with its nearest phylogenetic neighbour, Leisingera methylohalidivorans. Strain LMG 24366T grew on betaine (1 mM) as a sole carbon source, whereas no growth was observed on l-methionine (10 mM). The phenotypic and genotypic analyses showed that strain LMG 24366T could be differentiated from established Leisingera species and that it represented a novel species, for which the name Leisingera aquimarina sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is LMG 24366T (=CCUG 55860T) and has a DNA G+C content of 61.4 mol%. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijs.0.65844-0